ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,641, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).
"Systems and methods for optimizing spectral resolution for a hearing system" was invented by Josef Chalupper (Paunzhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary sound processor is configured to direct a cochlear implant to apply standard electrical stimulation representative of frequencies in an audio signal that are within an upper region to a cochlea of a first ear of a recipient by way of a plurality of electrodes in accordance with a frequency allocation table that maps frequencies in the upper region of the audible frequency range o...