US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and methods for making cochlear implant electrode arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,440, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and methods for making cochlear implant electrode arrays" was invented by Nicholas Wise (Pasadena, Calif.), Uli Gommel (Valencia, Calif.), Martin Sandoval-Perez (Canyon Country, Calif.) and Morgan Gegg (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the steps of securing a plurality of contact subassemblies to a mold surface at longitudinally spaced locations within a mold with resilient material located between the contact subassemblies and the mold surface, the contact subassemblies including, prior to being placed into ...