ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,751, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Eliminating acquisition-related artifacts in electrophysiological recording" was invented by Ryan Orin Melman (Sydney), Justin James Gilmour (Sydney), Alex von Brasch (Sydney) and Todd Lupton (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein are directed to techniques for eliminating acquisition related artifacts in electro-physiological recording. In order to eliminate artifacts in neural response recordings, a pair of recordings is made with, respectively, inverted and non-inverted polarity at one pair of electrodes. An the averag...