US Patent Issued to Cochlear on March 17 for "Convertibility of a bone conduction device" (Swedish, Belgian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,254, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Convertibility of a bone conduction device" was invented by David Nathan Morris (Dover Heights, Australia), Marcus Andersson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Goran Bjorn (Onsala, Sweden), Kristian Gunnar Asnes (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Carl Van Himbeeck (Zottegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and...