ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,034, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Bone conduction implant" was invented by Goran Bjorn (Onsala, Sweden), Stefan Magnander (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Marcus Andersson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone conduction implant, including a bone fixture including a male screw section configured to screw into a skull and an abutment configured to be rigidly attached to the bone fixture, wherein the abutment includes an exterior surface diameter lying on a first plane normal to a longitudinal axis of the bone conduction implant that is less than or substantially equal t...