US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Dec. 16 for "Machine learning model based systems and methods for providing assistance for a lead insertion procedure" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,986, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Machine learning model based systems and methods for providing assistance for a lead insertion procedure" was invented by Ersin Avci (Isernhagen, Germany), Tim Nauwelaers (Hannover, Germany), Volkmar Hamacher (Hannover, Germany) and Pierre Guillon (Stafa, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative insertion management system may be configured to provide, as a first input to a machine learning model, geometric model data specific to a recipient of a cochlear implant and representative of a geometrical model of a cochlea of the recipient...