ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,571, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Surgical healing monitoring" was invented by Stijn Eeckhoudt (Keerbergen, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the healing of a recipient of an implantable medical device after a surgical procedure, such as after initial implantation of the implantable medical device in the recipient. The implantable medical device comprises one or more implantable sensors configured to detect input signals and to generate sensor output signals therefrom. The sensor output signals are analyzed to determine when th...