US Patent Issued to Cochlear on April 14 for "Method and system for use of hearing prosthesis for linguistic evaluation" (Australian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,767, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Method and system for use of hearing prosthesis for linguistic evaluation" was invented by Rami Banna (Paddington, Australia), Alexander Case (Enmore, Australia), Florent Hubert-Brierre (Meise, Belgium) and Andrew Kendrick (Rosebery, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to help determine the extent to which a hearing prosthesis recipient is exposed to speech. The hearing prosthesis will log data regarding audio input, optimally in correspondence with times when the hearing prosthesis is in a stimulation-on mode in which...