US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Feb. 10 for "Headpieces, implantable cochlear stimulation systems including the same and associated apparatus and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,579, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Headpieces, implantable cochlear stimulation systems including the same and associated apparatus and methods" was invented by James George Elcoate Smith (Santa Clarita, Calif.) and Markus Michael Heerlein (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear implant headpiece in accordance with one of the present inventions includes a housing including a top wall, a bottom wall and a receptacle that extends from the top wall to the bottom wall, that defines an open top end, an open bottom end and a central axis, and that includes a receptacle lo...