US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Jan. 27 for "Cochlear stimulation system with surround sound and noise cancellation" (Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,515, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Cochlear stimulation system with surround sound and noise cancellation" was invented by Michael J. Cevette (Cave Creek, Ariz.), Jan Stepanek (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Gaurav N. Pradhan (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and Kenneth H. Brookler (Norwalk, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear and nerve stimulation system comprises a signal input to receive an audio input signal, a multiple channel microphone input to receive multiple channel ambient noise signals, and a multiple channel cochlear converter coupled to the signal inpu...