US 11,962,355 B2
Signal processing device with lipid interface
Shamit Shrivastava, Oxford (GB)
Assigned to APOHA LIMITED, London (GB)
Appl. No. 15/734,408
Filed by Oxford University Innovation Limited, Oxford (GB)
PCT Filed Jun. 6, 2019, PCT No. PCT/GB2019/051577
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 2, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/234437, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1809304 (GB), filed on Jun. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0167868 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 13/00 (2006.01); H04B 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 13/00 (2013.01) [H04B 11/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A signal processing device comprising:
an input transducer comprising electrodes arranged to apply an input signal to a lipid interface, the lipid interface having a thickness and being arranged between a first medium and a second medium, wherein the lipid interface comprises a plurality of lipid molecules;
wherein the input signal comprises one of:
a) a voltage difference applied across the thickness of the lipid interface; and,
b) a current flow through the thickness of the lipid interface,
wherein, when applied to the lipid interface by the input transducer, the input signal generates a mechanical pulse in the lipid interface; and the signal processing device further comprises
an output transducer arranged to receive an output signal by detecting a mechanical response in the lipid interface from the mechanical pulse generated in the lipid interface by the input transducer; and,
wherein the lipid interface is arranged to propagate the mechanical pulse from the input transducer via the lipid interface to the output transducer.