ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,375, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Near infrared light in hearing aid appliances" was invented by Soren Kamaric Riis (Smorum, Denmark), Thomas Lunner (Smorum, Denmark), Dorothea Wendt (Smorum, Denmark) and Bradford Backus (Vallauris, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear implant hearing aid system is disclosed. The cochlear implant hearing aid system comprises an external part. The external part includes a sound pickup unit configured to pick up sound from the environment and a sound processing unit configured to process said sound. The cochlear implant hearing aid syste...