US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Magnetic electrode cochlear implant with in-situ stimulation adjustments" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,718, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Magnetic electrode cochlear implant with in-situ stimulation adjustments" was invented by Sagarika Mukesh (Albany, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Steven Holmes (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for performing in-situ stimulation adjustments of a cochlear implant. The embodiment may include identifying, dynamically, a first set of magnetic coils and a second set of magnetic coils ...