US Patent Issued to Cochlear on April 8 for "Hierarchical environmental classification in a hearing prosthesis" (Australian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,685, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Hierarchical environmental classification in a hearing prosthesis" was invented by Michael Goorevich (Naremburn, Australia), Obaid Ur Rehman Qazi (Mechelen, Belgium) and Carl Puchner (Narraweena, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for generating a hierarchical classification of a set of sound signals received at hearing prosthesis. The hierarchical classification includes a plurality of nested classifications of a sound environment associated with the set of sound signals received at hearing prosthesis, incl...