ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,120, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Cardiac and vascular noise cancellation for pulsatile tinnitus" was invented by Matthew Amans (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cancelling an internally generated noise includes a processing device disposed on a patient. The processing device includes a sensor configured to record a pulse sound waveform generated by a pulse of the patient and at least one waveform processing circuit configured to output a cancellation sound waveform based on the recorded pulse sound waveform. The system also includes a sound ...