Appeal No. 1998-0659
Application No. 08/264,527
patients, evaluation of the tinnitus suppressor, and the
results of its use on the patients.
Next, this claim recites "means for generating a masking
noise signal in an ultrasonic frequency range." Initially, it
is noted that Appellants have described an embodiment of 12
their invention wherein electromagnetic signals are applied to
the patient's body by electrodes. The signals are in the
ultrasonic frequency range which Appellants recognize to be 13
above 20,000 hertz and extending to approximately the 100,000
hertz range, with an ultrasonic carrier of 25,000 to 30,000
hertz being found to work well. Claim 11, which is dependent
from claim 1, is directed to this mode of electrode
application of such signals to a patient.
Appellants have admitted that the Matsushima signal is14
an electrical signal applied to the patient. The article is
also replete with references to their device providing15
12 Specification, page 3, lines 35-37.
13 Specification, page 3, lines 12-17.
14 Brief, page 6, and Reply Brief, page 3.
15See, inter alia, sections 2, 5.2, 6.4 and 9; figures 1-
3.
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