ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,265, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Binaural loudness cue preservation in bimodal hearing systems" was invented by Harish Krishnamoorthi (Englewood, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to calculate long-term loudness measures for each of the prostheses in a bimodal hearing system and exchange this information across the two sides. The bimodal hearing system operates to ensure that the loudness differences between the two sides follow the ILDs between the two sides. Stated differently, the techniques presented herein determine a target loudness rati...