US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Feb. 17 for "Devices for enhancing transmissions of stimuli in auditory prostheses" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,803, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Devices for enhancing transmissions of stimuli in auditory prostheses" was invented by Johan Gustafsson (Macquarie University, Australia) and Tommy Bergs (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator provides vibrational stimulation to a recipient of a bone conduction device. To ensure proper operation of the actuator, a known signal is delivered to a coil associated therewith. An output signal from the coil is analyzed for distortion, the presence of which indicates that the actuator is out of balance. If distortion ...