ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,134, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Advanced artificial sound hearing training" was invented by Stephen Fung (Macquarie University, Australia), Alexander Von Brasch (Macquarie University, Australia) and Kieran Reed (Macquarie University, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including the actions of obtaining access to a virtual reality system; activating a cochlear implant such that the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on first input; and receiving second input from the virtual reality system in temporal proximity with the evocation of the hearing perc...