ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,356, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems for optimizing evoked response signal generation during an electrode lead insertion procedure" was invented by Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic system is disclosed that is configured to direct an acoustic stimulation generator to apply acoustic stimulation having a stimulus frequency to a recipient of a cochlear implant during an insertion procedure in which an electrode lead communicatively coupled to the cochlear implant is inserted into a cochlea of the recipient, direct the cochlear implant to us...