US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Nov. 3 for "Implantable microphone management" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,643, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Implantable microphone management" was invented by Stijn Eeckhoudt (Macquarie University, Australia), Jan Vermeiren (Macquarie University, Australia) and Antonin Rambault (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a transducer assembly, and a chamber in which a gas is located such that vibrations originating external to the device based on sound are effectively transmitted therethrough, wherein the device is an implantable microphone, the transducer assembly is in effective vibration communication with the g...