ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,544, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia) and ESPCI Paris (Paris).
"Cochlear implant with multi-layer electrode" was invented by Guillaume Tourrel (Vallauris, France), Lea Milenkovic (Paris), Yvette Tran (Paris), Dominique Hourdet (Paris) and Zuxiang Xu (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear hearing aid system for providing electrical stimulation to auditory nerve fibers of a cochlea of a recipient of the cochlear hearing aid system is disclosed. The cochlear hearing aid system comprises a microphone configured to receive an acoustical signal and provide an audio signal based on...