US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Oct. 28 for "Perception change-based adjustments in hearing prostheses" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,499, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Perception change-based adjustments in hearing prostheses" was invented by Stephen Fung (Dundas Valley, Australia), Alex von Brasch (Cremorne, Australia) and Kieran Reed (Eastwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are substantially automated techniques that enable an electro-acoustic or other hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient to use objective measurements to determine when the recipient is likely experiencing sound perception changes. Once one or more perception changes are detected, the hearing prosthesis may ...