US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Aug. 11 for "Advanced implanted magnet management in the face of external magnetic fields" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,826, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Advanced implanted magnet management in the face of external magnetic fields" was invented by Mark Alan Von Huben (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including subjecting a subcutaneous medical device containing a first magnet to a magnetic field of an MRI machine, thereby imparting a torque onto the first magnet and resisting the imparted torque via an external device that includes a second magnet, wherein the second magnet is movable relative to another component of the external device."

The patent was fi...