ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,050, issued on Jan. 27.
"Method for electromotility measurement of outer hair cells" was invented by Raphael Rembrand (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is an improved method for measuring the electromotile movement of outer hair cells (OHC) which are used in assessing the condition of the OHC and the state of the acoustic path of OHC. The obtained measurement results may be further processed either by comparing them to a standard signal obtained from the electromotile movement of OHC of averaging of a large number of measurements from "normative" people or by comparing them to a model. The mea...