US Patent Issued to Cochlear on July 8 for "Systems and methods for non-obtrusive adjustment of auditory prostheses" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,494, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Systems and methods for non-obtrusive adjustment of auditory prostheses" was invented by Martin Evert Gustaf Hillbratt (Vastra Gotaland, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing non-obtrusive, automatic adjustment of an auditory prosthesis are disclosed. A control expression can be detected during a conversation. Upon detection of the control expression, an audio setting adjustment can be selected and applied to the auditory prosthesis. Multiple adjustments can be made in response to identifying multiple control exp...