ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,355, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Hearing system fitting" was invented by Adam Hersbach (Richmond, Australia) and Ruth English (Newport, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented here are embodiments for calibrating a bimodal hearing system that includes a cochlear implant with an implantable microphone. Calibration of the implantable microphone is influenced by skull vibrations induced by a separate hearing aid of the bimodal system. Thus, two sets of calibration measurements are obtained both with and without the hearing aid unmuted. Calibration parameters such as fre...