ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,796, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Recipient-directed electrode set selection" was invented by Sean Lineaweaver (Gig Harbor, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for the determination/selection of a set of electrodes for use in an electrically-stimulating auditory/hearing prosthesis. More specifically, an electrically-stimulating hearing prosthesis includes a plurality of electrodes implanted in a recipient. Based, at least in part on a recipient's subjective preferences, one or more of these electrodes may be deactivated. The remaining (i.e., non-de...