ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,857, issued on July 22, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).
"Cochlear implants and magnets for use with same" was invented by Scott A Crawford (Castaic, Calif.) and James George Elcoate Smith (Santa Clarita, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cochlear including a cochlear lead, a housing including a magnet pocket and a magnet aperture, a magnet, located within the magnet pocket, having a top surface adjacent to the magnet aperture that defines a top magnet outer perimeter and a bottom surface adjacent to the bottom wall that defines a bottom magnet outer perimeter that is greater than the top magnet outer ...