The University of Salamanca is a leader in cochlear implants research

The patent developed by USAL´s research team will help improve the hearing quality of about 350,000 patients with a cochlear implant.

Patients with cochlear implants will now be able to improve their hearing quality thanks to the patent developed by the research team of Professor Enrique López Poveda. We have presented the patent to Julio Rodrigo Dacosta, the managing director of MEDE-EL in Spain and Portugal. This multinational company will purchase the patent in order to commercialize it in the next years.

Over 300 million people around the world could benefit from these advances if we manage to introduce the new technology to hearing aid users.

This is excellent news for the University of Salamanca, which will be put on the international scene. The patent will spread in Europe, as well as United States, China and Australia.

It will also help to expand our collaboration with the MED-EL company as we will have to work together to put this product out on the market and continue on further research. For that matter, the funding is extended for three more years to assure that the product reaches the market in perfect conditions and in order to continue on our research.

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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