US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Sept. 8 for "Harmonic allocation of cochlea implant frequencies" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,266, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Harmonic allocation of cochlea implant frequencies" was invented by Manuel Segovia Martinez (Vallauris, France) and Waldo Nogueira Vazquez (Vallauris, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosure is to provide a system and a method of fitting a cochlea implant system to a patient, the method including determining an insertion angle of at least one electrode of a first electrode array of the cochlea implant system inserted into a cochlea of the patient, determining a plurality of natural frequencies as a function of a cochlea...