US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and method for treating misophonia" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,241, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Apparatus and method for treating misophonia" was invented by Elijah Robertson (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treating misophonia include utilizing machine learning within a deep learning processor to allow a user to listen to ambient sounds from their environment without hearing trigger sounds. The method includes the steps of recording ambient sounds with one or more microphones, digitizing the recorded ambient sounds into digital signals, creating spectrographic data for the digital sign...