US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Dec. 2 for "Wireless communication in an implantable medical device system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,286, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Wireless communication in an implantable medical device system" was invented by Werner Meskens (Opwijk, Belgium) and Koen Van Herck (Kontich, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to techniques for the transfer of isochronous stimulation data over a standardized isochronous audio or data link between components of an implantable medical device system. More specifically, as described further below, a first component is configured to generate dynamic stimulation data based on one or more received ...