US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Aug. 11 for "Skin flap thickness estimation" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,325, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Skin flap thickness estimation" was invented by Helmut Christian Eder (Bemboka, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for estimating skin flap thickness ("SFT") of a recipient of an implantable medical device system. In particular, in accordance with the techniques presented herein, the implantable medical device comprises an external component having a magnet configured to magnetically couple the external component to an implantable component of the implantable medical device system through a skin flap of a re...