ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,285, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Individualized adaptation of medical prosthesis settings" was invented by Zachary Mark Smith (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for adapting/transitioning operation of a medical prosthesis, such as an auditory prosthesis, from a first or initial group of settings to a second or target group of settings. The adaptation in the operation of the medical prosthesis from the first group of settings to the second group of settings occurs over a period of time and in a series of individualized (recipie...