ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,739, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Magnet management MRI compatibility" was invented by Charles Roger Aaron Leigh (Macquarie University, Australia), Grahame Michael David Walling (Macquarie University, Australia), Mark Alan Von Huben (Macquarie University, Australia), James Vandyke (Macquarie University, Australia) and Nam Long Tuong (Sadleir, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from on...