Sony's new patents

Sony's new patents:

Sony has just been granted two patents for a method for "projecting" artificially-created sensory data directly into the cortex of the brain -- ultrasonic pulses that translate into an experience of sounds and images, smells and other sensations.

Links to US Patents 6,729,337 and 6,536,440 below:

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http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,536,440.WKU.&OS=PN/6,536,440&RS=PN/6,536,440

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