US Patent Issued to Universiteit Gent on Feb. 17 for "Method and system for determining the integrity of auditory nerve fibers and synapses" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,157, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Method and system for determining the integrity of auditory nerve fibers and synapses" was invented by Sarah Verhulst (Ghent, Belgium) and Viacheslav Vasilkov (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of hearing tests. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods for determining the integrity of Auditory Nerve Fibers (ANFs) and/or afferent Auditory Nerve Synapses (ANSs) and/or inner-hair cells (IHC) in a subject."

The patent was filed on Feb. 5, 2021, under Application No. 17/791,985.

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