US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Nov. 3 for "Simultaneous estimation of cochlear and efferent activity" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,460, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Simultaneous estimation of cochlear and efferent activity" was invented by Sriram Boothalingam (Evanston, Ill.) and Sumitrajit Dhar (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods to evaluate auditory efferent function by exposing a patient to short-duration acoustic click stimuli to generate a click-evoked otoacoustic emission (CEOAE) occurring in each ear of the patient, and in response to exposing the patient to click stimuli, concurrently sampling outer hair cell activity (OHC) and medial olivocochl...