ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,543, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Sound processing techniques" was invented by Helmut Christian Eder (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, wherein the method includes obtaining data, wherein, the data contains audio content, visual content, or audio content and visual content processing data based on the audio and/or visual content using results from machine learning to develop output, and stimulating tissue of a recipient to evoke a sensory percept based on the output."

The patent was filed on Sept. 4, 2019, under Application No. 17/261,654....