US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on May 27 for "Systems and methods for measuring evoked responses from a brain of a patient" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,172, issued on May 27, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for measuring evoked responses from a brain of a patient" was invented by Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system includes a sound processor configured to be worn by a patient and to direct a cochlear implant implanted within the patient to apply electrical stimulation to the patient; and a conductive contact configured to detect a signal representative of an evoked response generated by a brain of the patient, the conductive contact integrated with the sound processor so as to be locat...