US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Nov. 3 for "Cochlear implants including vibration driven electrode arrays and associated methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,221, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Advanced Bionics LLC (Valencia, Calif.).

"Cochlear implants including vibration driven electrode arrays and associated methods" was invented by Martin Grossoehmichen (Nienhagen, Germany) and Stephan Geiger (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear implant including a housing, an antenna within the housing, a stimulation processor within the housing operably connected to the antenna and an electrode array, operably connected to the stimulation processor, including a flexible array body, a plurality of electrically conductive contacts on the flexible array body, a plurality of fl...