US Patent Issued to Cochlear on July 22 for "Environmental classification controlled output level in bone conduction devices" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,003, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Environmental classification controlled output level in bone conduction devices" was invented by Kristian Gunnar Asnes (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone conduction device is configured to classify received sound signals (sounds) into one or more sound categories/classes (i.e., determine the input signal type). The bone conduction device is configured to dynamically set a maximum force output (MFO) of the bone conduction device at least based on the sound class of the sound signals."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2023, u...