ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,288, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Advanced hearing prosthesis recipient habilitation and/or rehabilitation" was invented by Jim May (Macquarie University, Australia) and Janette Oliver (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of increasing an ability of a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, including obtaining data indicative of a first characteristic of content, wherein the content is an audio or an audio-visual content, obtaining data indicative of a second characteristic of the content, identifying, b...