ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,186, issued on July 15, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for monitoring and acting on a physiological condition of a stimulation system recipient" was invented by Leonid M. Litvak (Los Angeles), R. Tissa Karunasiri (Valencia, Calif.), Hannah A. Glick (Ventura, Calif.), Kanthaiah Koka (Valencia, Calif.), Chen Chen (Valencia, Calif.), Anthony J. Spahr (Newhall, Calif.), Jason Galster (Studio City, Calif.) and Dean Swan (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system includes a stimulation device configured to apply stimulation to a recipient, a sensing device...