US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Oct. 27 for "Cochlear implant systems and methods for electrical cochlea stimulation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,559, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Advanced Bionics LLC (Valencia, Calif.).

"Cochlear implant systems and methods for electrical cochlea stimulation" was invented by Josef Chalupper (Paunzhausen, Germany) and Volkmar Hamacher (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary cochlear implant system comprises an electrode array comprising a plurality of stimulation electrodes; a frequency filtering unit configured to divide an input audio signal into a plurality of input signal channels; and a stimulation control unit configured to generate from the plurality of input signal channels a dedicated stimulation signal fo...