Improving musical perception of a recipient of an auditory device

Treatment actions can be taken based on an analysis of the ability of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis to perceive musical activities. The occurrence of musical activities and the recipients response thereto can be determined based on transducers. The recipients musical perception can be determined by analyzing the signals from the transducers as stand-alone measures or by comparing the signals against known music. The treatment actions can relate to the treatment of a hearing-impairment of the recipient of the auditory prosthesis, such as by modifying the settings of the auditory prosthesis to affect the ongoing operation of the auditory prosthesis.

The abstract as published by the patent office, from US2022021992A1. It describes the invention; it is not a statement of what is protected.

• Interface and electrodes

  Electrodes and arrays

• Telemetry

  Wireless telemetry

• Stimulation

  Stimulation · Closed loop

What the filing appears to be about, read by published rules from its title, abstract and classification codes (A61B5/293, A61B5/374, A61F11/045, A61M2021/0027, A61M21/00). The claims define what a patent protects, and they are not read here.

Interface and electrodes

Everything downstream works with what the contacts pick up. Their number, size and distance from the neurons set the ceiling on the signal. The problem behind it: more contacts, closer to neurons, that still record after years in tissue that reacts to them.

Telemetry

Thousands of channels produce more data than a low-power radio can carry raw, so what is sent, and how, decides what the system can use. The problem behind it: high data rates at low power through tissue, reliably and securely.

Stimulation

Restoring sensation, sight or movement needs information going in, and a therapy that adapts needs to sense and stimulate at once. The problem behind it: evoking a precise, stable effect without damaging tissue or electrodes, and without blinding the recording.

Why the layer matters to the field, not a judgement of this filing. A patent family shows that protection was sought. It does not show that the technology was built, is used in a product, or works in people. The whole stack

One invention, published 8 times in 3 offices. Each publication opens in Espacenet.

• International (PCT)a route to several countries, not a countryWO2020254873A124 Dec 2020
• ChinaCN113490524A8 Oct 2021CN113490524B23 Aug 2024 · grantCN118718253A1 Oct 2024
• United StatesUS2022021992A120 Jan 2022US11843919B212 Dec 2023 · grantUS20240089679A114 Mar 2024US12621617B25 May 2026 · grant

1. 17 Jun 2019First filingEarliest priority, at United States. The family is counted in this year.
2. 15 Jun 2020ApplicationsFiled at International (PCT), China, United States.
3. 24 Dec 2020First publicationWO2020254873A1, International (PCT).
4. 17 May 2021Owner recordedUnited States, on US2022021992A1: assignment; owner named: COCHLEAR LIMITED, AUSTRALIA.
5. 22 Jun 2022Office recordInternational (PCT), on WO2020254873A1: ep: pct application non-entry in european phase.
6. 30 Oct 2023ApplicationFiled at United States.
7. 23 Aug 2024Grant publishedCN113490524B, China.
8. 5 May 2026Grant publishedUS12621617B2, United States.

Dates as the offices published them. Office records are in the offices' own words and are a selection: refusals, lapses and withdrawals, and records that name an owner. Each concerns one member of the family, not the family as a whole, and another member in the same office may stand. Whether a patent is in force today is not assessed.

Organisation

Cochlear · 13 families identified

Use case

Hearing

• Bibliographic data, family members and office records: European Patent Office, Open Patent Services (the DOCDB and INPADOC databases), read 7 Oct 2026.
• The record itself, with its claims and description: US2022021992A1 in Espacenet
• Counted as a BCI patent family: classified A61B5/293 (invasive electrodes for brain recording); filed by Cochlear Limited, an organisation already in the graph. How families are found and judged