US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Oct. 6 for "Wirelessly powered medical implant for treatment of sleep-disordered breathing" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,104, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Wirelessly powered medical implant for treatment of sleep-disordered breathing" was invented by Koen Erik Van den Heuvel (Hove, Belgium), Catherine Picard (St. Aubin, France) and Werner Meskens (Opwijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes first circuitry configured to be implanted on or within a recipient's body and to apply stimulation signals to at least one muscle of a recipient and/or to at least one neuron configured to control the at least one muscle. The apparatus further includes second circuitry configured to be i...