ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,509, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Objective determination of acoustic prescriptions" was invented by John Michael Heasman (Hampton, Australia), Kerrie Plant (Melbourne, Australia), Peter Gibson (South Coogee, Australia), Stephen O'Leary (Melbourne, Australia) and Luke Campbell (Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques that make use of objective measurements obtained in response to acoustic stimulation signals. More specifically, at least one measure of outer hair cell function and at least one measure of auditory nerve function are ob...