US Patent Issued to Cochlear on May 19 for "Determining impedance-related phenomena in vibrating actuator and identifying device system characteristics based thereon" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,638, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Determining impedance-related phenomena in vibrating actuator and identifying device system characteristics based thereon" was invented by Martin E. Hillbratt (Lindome, Sweden), Kristian Asnes (Molndal, Sweden), Marcus Andersson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Johan Gustafsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Mats Hojlund (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including determining a change in an actuator impedance based on a change in an electrical property of a system of which the actuator is apart, and determining one or more system characte...