US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on June 3 for "Sound delivery apparatuses for audiometric measurements" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,194, issued on June 3, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Sound delivery apparatuses for audiometric measurements" was invented by Anil K. Patnala (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary apparatus includes tubing that physically couples to an acoustic stimulation generator generating sound waves representative of acoustic stimulation used to obtain an audiometric measurement with respect to a patient. The tubing provides a first portion of a sound propagation channel from the acoustic stimulation generator to an ear canal of the patient. The apparatus further includes an ear tip di...