ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,777, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OTICON MEDICAL A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"One-piece coupling for a bone anchored hearing system" was invented by Martin Karlsson (Askim, Sweden) and Vikram Shetty (Askim, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relates to a coupling for coupling an external hearing device with an abutment of a bone anchored hearing system. The disclosure more particularly relates to a coupling for coupling an external hearing device with an abutment of a bone anchored hearing system, the coupling including: at least two coupling arms for establishing a connection to th...