US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Oct. 20 for "Shifting of output in a sense prosthesis" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,323, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Shifting of output in a sense prosthesis" was invented by Sean Lineaweaver (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and John Michael Heasman (East Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including the action of operating a sense prosthesis, such as a retinal implant, according to a first operating regime while the recipient has a first fatigue level, and operating the sense prosthesis according to a second operating regime while the recipient has a second fatigue level that is greater than the first fatigue level."

The patent was filed on Marc...