ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,952, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Electrode array manufacture" was invented by Milind Chandrakant Raje (Macquarie University, Australia) and Timothy Mcinnes (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Winding a wire at a first location such that the wire is bunched at the first location, extending the wire from the first location to a second location, winding the wire at the second location such that the wire is bunched at the second location, extending the wire from the second location back towards the first location to a third location proximate the second ...