US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Aug. 25 for "Capacitor testing for implantable stimulators" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,855, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Capacitor testing for implantable stimulators" was invented by Helmut Christian Eder (Bemboka, Australia), Mathew Ross Markey (Macquarie University, Australia), Yves Wernaers (Macquarie University, Australia) and Nick Calus (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein are relevant to testing capacitors to identify potentially faulty DC blocking capacitors in implantable stimulators. In an example, the test includes selecting an active electrode, a return electrode, and a reference electrode. Short dur...