Patent ID: 9479879
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: A61B,H04R

Claim Text:
1. A method for fitting a hearing device at least partially implanted under the skin for a recipient, the method comprising: obtaining hearing threshold levels for the recipient unaided by the hearing device; obtaining hearing threshold levels indicative of a minimum signal for the hearing device that causes a hearing percept by the recipient based on the hearing percept caused by the hearing device due to recipient feedback; calculating a transmission loss using the stored thresholds unaided by the device and the thresholds for the device, wherein the calculated transmission loss at least partially takes into account the effects of transmission due to the minimum signal for the hearing device travelling through tissue of the recipient; generating one or more control settings using the calculated transmission loss; and providing the control settings to the hearing device so that the hearing device applies a gain to sound received by the hearing device that separately compensates for the transmission loss and a hearing loss of the recipient by applying gain that compensates for a percentage of the transmission loss that is greater than the percentage of the compensated hearing loss.