ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,646, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Identifying hearing prosthesis actuator resonance peak(s)" was invented by Koen Erik Van Den Heuvel (Mechelen, Belgium) and Werner Meskens (Mechelen, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auditory prosthesis comprising an actuator for providing mechanical stimulation to a recipient. The auditory prosthesis comprises a measurement circuit for use in determining the resonance peak(s) of the actuator. In an embodiment, the measurement circuit measures the voltage drop across the actuator and/or current through the actuator during a frequency swee...