ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,564, issued on March 18, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for fitting a hearing system to a recipient based on cortical potentials of the recipient" was invented by Leonid M. Litvak (Los Angeles), R. Tissa Karunasiri (Valencia, Calif.), Hannah A. Glick (Ventura, Calif.), Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.), Chen Chen (Valencia, Calif.) and Jason Galster (Studio City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative cochlear implant system includes an electrode lead having an array of electrodes, a cochlear implant coupled with the electrode lead and configured to be implanted within ...