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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University, AU;

Inventors:

John Michael Heasman, Macquarie University, AU;

Peter Gibson, Macquarie University, AU;

Riaan Rottier, Macquarie University, AU;

Mary-Beth Brinson, Macquarie University, AU;

Stephen John O'Leary, Macquarie University, AU;

Christofer William Bester, Macquarie University, AU;

Assignee:

Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University, AU;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/05 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61B 5/24 (2021.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/0541 (2013.01); A61B 5/24 (2021.01); A61B 5/6815 (2013.01); A61N 1/36038 (2017.08);
Abstract

A method, including energizing one or more electrodes of a cochlear electrode array to induce a current flow in the cochlea at a plurality of temporal locations, measuring one or more electrical properties at one or more locations in the cochlea resulting from the induced current flow at the plurality of different temporal locations and determining whether or not trauma has occurred based on a change between the measured electrical properties from the first temporal location to the second temporal location.


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