ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,178, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Sound capture system degradation identification" was invented by Riaan Rottier (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including an action of receiving first data based on data based on ambient sound captured with a first microphone, and further including an action of receiving second data based on data based on the ambient sound captured with a second microphone, wherein the first microphone is a part of a hearing prosthesis, the second microphone is part of an indoor sound capture system or indoor sound capt...