ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,287, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Microphone placement" was invented by Marcus Vardfjall (Molnlycke, Sweden), Henrik Fyrlund (Molnlycke, Sweden), Kristian Asnes (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Clas Johansson (Molnlycke, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a prosthesis configured with a sound capture system and configured to evoke a hearing percept based on a captured sound captured by the sound capture system, wherein at least a portion of the prosthesis is configured to attach to a head of a recipient such that sound is captured by the sound capture system external...