Attempting my own dot-joining (apologies in advance if already posted). Based on Brainchip's work quotes in a Cochlear research paper (I think Space Cadet posted it), found this connection particularly the bold fact very interesting:

Hearing Is Believing

Twenty-six years ago, Adam Kissiah delivered a medical wonder to the world that has resulted in restored hearing for thousands of individuals, and allowed thousands of others born deaf to perceive sound for the very first time.

Driven by his own hearing problem and three failed corrective surgeries, Kissiah started working in the mid-1970s on what would become known as the cochlear implant, a surgically implantable device that provides hearing sensation to persons with severe-to-profound hearing loss who receive little or no benefit from hearing aids. Uniquely, the cochlear implant concept was not based on theories of medicine, as Kissiah had no medical background whatsoever. Instead, he utilized the technical expertise he learned while working as an electronics instrumentation engineer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for the basis of his invention. This took place over 3 years, when Kissiah would spend his lunch breaks and evenings in Kennedy's technical library, studying the impact of engineering principles on the inner ear.

In 1977, NASA helped Kissiah obtain a patent for the cochlear implant. Several years later, he sold the rights of the technology to a company named BIOSTIM, Inc., for commercial development of the innovation. Although BIOSTIM is no longer in business, numerous hearing aid manufacturers have applied Kissiah's patented concept to their cochlear implant products. As the inventor himself puts it, the cochlear implant "only works one way."

It may just be a coincidence.

Was originally looking for a link between Cochlear and see if they working on any nasal stuff at all. Chasing up on Lou's quote about 'very near term' about BRN and the healthcare industry.

GLAH