US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation, RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL on July 21 for "Robotically-assisted cochlear implant system" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,602, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (Columbus, Ohio).

"Robotically-assisted cochlear implant system" was invented by David Hoelzle (Bexley, Ohio), Oliver F. Adunka (Columbus, Ohio) and Gregory Wiet (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system for cochlear implantation (CI) is described herein. The system includes a robotic tool configured to hold a cochlear implant electrode array and a controller that is operably coupled to the robotic tool. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The memory has...