US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Oct. 20 for "Intelligent modularization" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,327, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Intelligent modularization" was invented by Peter Bart Jos Van Gerwen (Mechelen, Belgium) and James Roy Easter (Lyons, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable device, including an implantable module including a first functional component, the implantable module being configured to effectively differentiate between a plurality of different second modules respectively placeable into signal communication with the module. In an exemplary embodiment, the implantable module is configured to analyze respective signals from the plurality of ...