US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Oct. 27 for "Pitch coding enhancement for hearing devices" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,294, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Pitch coding enhancement for hearing devices" was invented by Andrew E Vandali (Greenvale, Australia) and Zachary Mark Smith (Pymble, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to enhance pitch coding in hearing devices, such as cochlear implants, by utilizing place of stimulation to more accurately and distinctly code frequency information pertaining to individual harmonics of a target harmonic signal, such as voiced vowel in speech or a harmonic tone in music. The techniques presented herein can be combined with a...