US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Direct drive hearing aid stimulation methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,911, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Direct drive hearing aid stimulation methods" was invented by Hamid Djalilian (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct hearing device includes an inner actuator element that interacts with a subject's tympanic membrane, the inner actuator element sitting in the subject's ear canal. The direct hearing device further includes an outer component that houses a microphone, circuitry that processes a signal from the microphone, and a battery. The outer component is configured to sit laterally in the subject's ear canal. Ad...