ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,732, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nurotone Medical Ltd. (Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel) and NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).
"System and method for cochlear implant stimulation" was invented by Dan David Albeck (Givat Shmuel, Israel) and Claus-Peter Richter (Skokie, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of selecting stimulations for a cochlear implant or an auditory implant. The method may include: capturing an acoustical signal; dividing the acoustical signal into a plurality of frequency bands; determining a mean acoustical energy for each frequency band; for each frequency band: comparing the mean acousti...