ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,894, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Implantable microphone management" was invented by James Roy Easter (Boulder, Colo.) and Maekele Gebrekidan (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, including an implantable microphone, including a transducer, and a chamber in which a gas is located such that vibrations originating external to the microphone based on sound are effectively transmitted therethrough, wherein the transducer is in effective vibration communication with the gas, wherein the transducer is configured to convert the vibrations traveling via the gas to an ...