ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,816, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Dynamic current steering" was invented by Stefan Jozef Mauger (Macleod, Australia) and Zachary Mark Smith (Greenwood Village, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are dynamic current steering techniques in which a dynamic stimulation pulse is delivered to a recipient as current stimulation applied across a plurality of stimulation channels. The current stimulation is weighted and applied in a pattern that results in a time varying progressive change in the location of a locus of the current stimulation across the plurality of ch...