US Patent Issued to Cochlear on July 28 for "Transducer with new spring attachment" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,041, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Transducer with new spring attachment" was invented by Henrik Fyrlund (Macquarie University, Australia) and Tommy Bergs (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a yoke, a counterweight apparatus and a flexible apparatus connecting the yoke to the counterweight apparatus and enabling the counterweight apparatus to move relative to the yoke, wherein the flexible apparatus is attached to the counterweight apparatus via a radial connection, and the device is an electromagnetic transducer."

The patent was fi...