ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,554, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Dynamic virtual hearing modelling" was invented by Alexander von Brasch (Cremorne, Australia) and Stephen Fung (Dundas Valley, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for generating, updating, and/or using a virtual hearing model associated with a recipient of an auditory prosthesis. The virtual hearing model is generated and updated for the recipient based on psychoacoustics data associated with the recipient and, in certain cases, based on psychoacoustics data gathered from one or more selected populations of aud...