US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on May 13 for "Systems and methods for frequency-specific localization and speech comprehension enhancement" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,065, issued on May 13, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for frequency-specific localization and speech comprehension enhancement" was invented by Josef Chalupper (Paunzhausen, Germany) and Smita S. Agrawal (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary spatial enhancement system performs frequency-specific localization and speech comprehension enhancement. Specifically, the system receives an audio signal presented to a recipient of a hearing device, and generates, based on the audio signal, a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal. The first frequency...