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Granted Patent B2
US 12,249,307 · App. 17/233,538 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Methods and systems of sound-stimulation practice

Inventor: Tony Jonathan Graber (Fulda, MN)
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Patent No.
US 12,249,307
App. No.
17/233,538
Granted
Mar 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one aspect, a computerized method of auditory therapeutic stimulation with a mobile-device application includes the step of, with a mobile device, providing an auditory therapeutic stimulation application operative in the mobile device. The method includes the step of receiving a user input comprising a user pathology of the user or an athletic goal of the user. The method includes the step of associating the user input with a neurological region of user's brain; determine a tone frequency that stimulates the neurological region of user's brain. The method includes the step of determining a specified period to play the tone frequency. The method includes the step of playing the tone frequency to the user for the specified period of time.

Claims (30)

1. A computerized method of auditory therapeutic stimulation with a mobile-device application for comprising:

with a mobile device:

provide an auditory therapeutic stimulation application operative in the mobile device;

receive a user input comprising a user pathology of the user or an athletic goal of the user;

associate the user input with a neurological region of user's brain by:

provide a table of tones,

for each tone in the table of tones, play a music piece that is adjusted to be in a same key as an embedded tone in the table of tones so as to be pleasant to the user, and

receive a feedback from the user;

determine a tone frequency that stimulates the neurological region of user's brain;

determine a specified period to play the tone frequency; and

play the tone frequency to the user for the specified period of time.

2. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the user pathology of the user or an athletic goal comprises a Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.

3. The computerized method of claim 2 , wherein the neurological region of user's brain comprises a right frontal region, a right parietal region, a right mesencephalon region, and a left cerebellum neurologic region.

4. The computerized method of claim 3 , wherein the time period comprises at least a ten-minute period.

5. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 261.63.

6. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 293.66.

7. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 329.63.

8. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 349.23.

9. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 392.00.

10. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 440.00.

11. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency is 493.88.

12. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the athletic goal of the user comprises an improving balance goal, a synchronizing brain hemispheres goal, an activating extensor muscle's goal, an increasing physical strength goal, an improving recovery from injury goal, an improving coordination of fine-motor control goal, a lowering a user's heart rate goal, a reducing nausea in the user goal, or a vestibular stimulation goal.

13. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein the tone frequency comprises a set of specified key notes for a fourth octave version of seven major musical keys.

14. The computerized method of claim 13 , wherein the tone frequency comprises a second harmonic over thirty-six (36) decibels (dB) lower in an average power than a specified fundamental frequency.

15. The computerized method of claim 13 , wherein the tone frequency comprises a third harmonic that is thirty (30) dB below a second harmonic.

16. The computerized method of claim 1 , wherein plurality of tone frequencies are embedded into a plurality of digital audio files such that a musical piece in the plurality of digital audio files is played in each of a set of major musical keys.

17. The computerized method of claim 16 , wherein the music piece is modified to be in a same key as the embedded tone so as to be pleasant to the user.

18. The computerized method of claim 16 , wherein an amplitude of the tone frequencies are decreased relative to an amplitude of the music piece as the tone frequency is increased to maintain a same perceived relative volume level.

19. The computerized method of claim 18 , wherein the user wears a biosensor and a bioresponse feedback data from the biosensor is used to modify an attribute of the tone frequency.

20. The computerized method of claim 19 , wherein a plurality of tone attributes are updated using an iterative feedback from the user, and wherein the plurality of tone attributes comprises a tone volume and a tone play duration.

Continuity (1)
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