ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,588, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TODOC Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for improving effective dynamic range of neural stimulation for artificial cochlear system, and reconfigurable current DAC-based neural stimulation IC chip therefor" was invented by Woojin Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Kyousik Min (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hoseung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Minkyu Je (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for improving an effective dynamic range including acquiring a hearing profile of...