US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Oct. 21 for "Use of one or more evoked response signals to determine an insertion state of an electrode lead during an electrode lead insertion procedure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,342, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Use of one or more evoked response signals to determine an insertion state of an electrode lead during an electrode lead insertion procedure" was invented by Leonid M. Litvak (Los Angeles) and Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary diagnostic system is configured to direct an acoustic stimulation generator to an acoustic stimulation generator to apply acoustic stimulation having a plurality of stimulus frequencies to a recipient of a cochlear implant during an insertion procedure in which an electrode lead communi...