ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,644, issued on May 19, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Cochlear implant system and method" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Katsuyuki Sakuma (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Amos Cahan (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for a cochlear implant that includes receiving, by a processor, an electric audio signal; processing, by the processor, the electric audio signal, thereby providing a processed electric audio signal; receiving, by a transducer driver, the processed electric audio signal; transmitting, by the transducer driver, the processed electric audio ...