MUMBAI, India, Aug. 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517057365 A) filed by Sitter, Sascha, Dillingen, Germany, on June 15, for 'hearing aid device with direct auditory nerve stimulation.'
Inventor(s) include Sitter, Sascha.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 1, under issue no. 31/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In a hearing aid device (100) having at least one acoustic sensor (111) which converts ambient sounds and noises into electrical vibrations and at least one vibrating element (121) which can be placed in or near the ear of a user for converting electrical vibrations into auditory nerve impulses, directional information of a plurality of different sound sources distributed in the space around a user is maintained, with airborne interference noises being avoided, by providing a plurality of acoustic sensors (111, 112, 113, 114) which can be placed at different locations on or in the ear of a user for the purpose of detecting directional information of different sound sources from the environment of a user, which acoustic sensors, due to their individual placement, receive the sound waves of a respective sound source with a mutually temporal offset and generate correspondingly mutually temporally offset electrical oscillations, wherein an auditory nerve stimulation device (121, 122, 123, 124) within the cochlea (210) of an ear (200) in question, which stimulation device responds to electrical signals, is uniquely assigned to each of the acoustic sensors (111, 112, 113)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 05, 2023, under International application No.PCT/DE2023/100647.
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