US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Feb. 25 for "Hearing percept parameter adjustment strategy for a hearing prosthesis" (Australian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,255, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Hearing percept parameter adjustment strategy for a hearing prosthesis" was invented by Tom Francart (Leuven, Belgium), Hugh Joseph McDermott (East Melbourne, Australia) and Colette McKay (East Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic system, comprising a first sub-system configured to evoke a hearing percept based on a first principle of operation, and a second sub-system configured to evoke a hearing percept based on at least one of the first principle of operation or a second principle of operation different from the f...