ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,056, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Bilaterally-coordinated channel selection" was invented by Sara Ingrid Duran (Macquarie University, Australia) and Zachary Mark Smith (Macquarie University, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for bilateral-coordination of channel selection in bilateral hearing prosthesis systems. A bilateral hearing prosthesis system comprises first and second hearing prostheses each configured to receive sound signals, and a processing module. The processing module is configured to select, based on bilateral sound information...