US Patent Issued to Cochlear on April 29 for "Bioactive agent distribution" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,590, issued on April 29, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Bioactive agent distribution" was invented by Daniel Smyth (Macquarie University, Australia), Jonathon Kirk (Macquarie University, Australia), Wolfram Frederik Dueck (Macquarie University, Australia) and Joris Walraevens (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device configured to simultaneously interface with a scala tympani and a scala vestibuli of a cochlea, wherein the device can be configured to deliver drug to the cochlea at least in part via a post introduction non-diffusion based delivery, and wher...