US Patent Issued to Cochlear on June 23 for "Measuring presbycusis" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,034, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Measuring presbycusis" was invented by Ryan Orin Melman (South Coogee, Australia), Stefan Jozef Mauger (Macleod, Australia), Riaan Rottier (Eastwood, Australia) and Sean Lineaweaver (Gig Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Diagnosing and treating presbycusis (age related hearing loss) includes measuring basilar membrane stiffness. In an example, a low frequency component of an electrocochleogram stimulation signal is used to bias a region of the basilar membrane, the results of which are used basilar membrane stiffness. The resulting me...