Sound effect synthesis
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11721317B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US16960048

    申请日:2018-11-29

    摘要: Disclosed herein is a sound synthesis system for generating a user defined synthesised sound effect, the system comprising: a receiver of user defined inputs for defining a sound effect; a generator of control parameters in dependence on the received user defined inputs; a plurality of sound effect objects, wherein each sound effect object is arranged to generate a different class of sound and each sound effect object comprises a sound synthesis model arranged to generate a sound in dependence on one or more of the control parameters; a plurality of audio effect objects, wherein each audio effect object is arranged to receive a sound from one or more sound effect objects and/or one or more other audio effect objects, process the received sound in dependence on one or more of the control parameters and output the processed sound; a scene creation function arranged to receive sound output from one or more sound effect objects and/or audio effect objects and to generate a synthesised sound effect in dependence on the received sound; and an audio routing function arranged to determine the arrangement of audio effect objects, sound effect objects and scene creation function such that one or more sounds received by the scene creation function are dependent on the audio routing function; wherein the determined arrangement of audio effect objects, sound effect objects and the scene creation function by the audio routing function is dependent on the user defined inputs.

    Method and apparatus for determining the efficacy of statins for treating inflammatory diseases in individual patients

    公开(公告)号:US11531036B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-20

    申请号:US16608428

    申请日:2018-04-26

    IPC分类号: G01N33/92 G01N33/543 A01N1/02

    摘要: A method, device, computer program and related immunoassay are disclosed for assessing the efficacy of a statin selected from, for example, selected from RvT1 (7,13,20-trihydroxy-8,10,14,16Z,18-docosapentaenoic acid), RvT2 (7,12,13-trihydroxy-8,10,14,16Z,19Z-docosapentaenoic acid), RvT3 (7,8,13-trihydroxy-9,11,14,16Z,19Z-docosapentaenoic acid) and RvT4 (7,13-dihydroxy-8,10,14,16Z,19Z-docosapentaenoic acid), for use in the treatment of an inflammatory condition in an individual patient, which comprises measuring the levels of at least one 13-series resolvin in biological samples obtained from the patient before and after administration of the statin, wherein an increase in the level of the resolvin after administration of the statin is indicative of efficacy of the statin. Also disclosed is a method of storing a biological sample to preserve lipid mediators in the sample comprising placing the sample in an organic solvent and storing the sample at a temperature of ≤−75° C.

    Method of Predicting Requirement for Biologic Therapy

    公开(公告)号:US20220340974A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-27

    申请号:US17764717

    申请日:2020-09-30

    IPC分类号: C12Q1/6883

    摘要: A method for identifying a subject requiring treatment with a biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis, the method comprising the steps: (a) determining the level of one or more biomarkers in one or more samples obtained from the subject, wherein the one or more biomarkers are selected from Table 1; and (b) comparing the level of the one or more biomarkers to one or more corresponding reference values; wherein the levels of the one or more biomarkers compared to the corresponding reference values are indicative of the requirement for treatment with a biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.

    Surgical tool
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11058405B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-13

    申请号:US16319058

    申请日:2017-06-13

    IPC分类号: A61B17/00

    摘要: A surgical tool for use in the treatment of anal fistulas includes an elongate, flexible probe having a channel running there through; a seton attached to a proximal end of the probe; and a wire located within the channel, and movable along the channel; wherein: the probe has a first stiffness and the wire has a second stiffness, the first stiffness being less than the second stiffness.