US Patent Issued to Cochlear on July 1 for "Audio training" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,933, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Audio training" was invented by Alexander von Brasch (Cremorne, Australia), Stephen Fung (Dundas Valley, Australia) and Kartik Natarajan (Northwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are audio training techniques that facilitate the rehabilitation of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. In certain embodiments, the audio training techniques presented herein may include real time training aspects in which the recipient's surrounding (ambient) auditory environment, including the sounds present therein, is analyzed in real ti...