US Patent Issued to Universidad de Salamanca on Sept. 2 for "Medial olivocochlear reflex sound coding with bandwidth normalization" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,310, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain).

"Medial olivocochlear reflex sound coding with bandwidth normalization" was invented by Enrique Alejandro Lopez-Poveda (Salamanca, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing arrangement is described for signal processing in a bilateral hearing implant system. A channel compression module develops a inhibition-adjusted band pass signal for each band pass signal using a channel-specific dynamic inhibition adjustment based on a channel-normalized medial olivocochlear reflex model that reflects bandwidth energy for a corresponding contralat...