US Patent Issued to Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiro on Sept. 29 for "Surface and subsurface electrodes for guiding stimulation electric currents with electric fields for cochlea implanted electrodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,384, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiro (Los Angeles).

"Surface and subsurface electrodes for guiding stimulation electric currents with electric fields for cochlea implanted electrodes" was invented by Heather Marisa Richardson (Los Angeles) and Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiro (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We disclose the use of passive, or field-shaping electrodes, below the surface of the supporting structure of a cochlear implant. The location of the field-shaping electrodes below the surface of the supporting structure, allows for the use of the field-shaping electrodes to exist in the s...