US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Sept. 1 for "Intraoperative vibrational feedback assessment" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,776, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd..

"Intraoperative vibrational feedback assessment" was invented by Bernd Waldmann (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for generating information characterizing an amount of vibration isolation between an implantable vibration sensor and an implantable mechanical actuator (actuator), when each are implanted in a recipient. In particular, the implantable mechanical actuator is configured to generate and deliver, based on one or more actuator control signals, mechanical stimulation signals to the recipient. The vibration sensor is configur...