US Patent Issued to Advanced Bionics on Oct. 14 for "Cochlear implants having MRI-compatible magnet apparatus and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,668, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Cochlear implants having MRI-compatible magnet apparatus and associated systems and methods" was invented by Sung Jin Lee (Valencia, Calif.) and James George Elcoate Smith (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a cochlear implant with a cochlear lead including a plurality of electrodes, an antenna, a stimulation processor operably connected to the antenna and to the cochlear lead, and a magnet apparatus, adjacent to the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a frame within the case and rotatable relative t...