US Patent Issued to Cochlear on July 29 for "Broadcast selection" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,196, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Broadcast selection" was invented by Koen Erik Van Den Heuvel (Hove, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed technology includes a sensory prosthesis configured to automatically select a broadcast channel based on a comparison with a signal from a sensor of the sensory prosthesis. In an example, a sound processor automatically connects to an appropriate wireless broadcast audio channel by comparing the sound the sound processor receives on a microphone with the audio the sound processor receives from each of the wireless broadcast chann...