ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,204, issued on July 7, was assigned to TODOC Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cochlear implant system using compatible external device" was invented by Kyou Sik Min (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ho Seung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong U Lim (Osan-si, South Korea) and Eun Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear implant system using a compatible external device includes an external device that keeps mapping data, which are obtained by measuring a biological response to an electrical stimulation signal of an internal device implanted in a cochlear conduct of a user, for each internal device, determines whether the...