US Patent Issued to Cochlear on July 8 for "Event detection in an implantable auditory prosthesis" (Australian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,030, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Event detection in an implantable auditory prosthesis" was invented by Benjamin Peter Johnston (Wollstonecraft, Australia), Paul Michael Carter (West Pennant Hills, Australia), Stuart John Kay (Marsfield, Australia), Andrea Lam (Ryde, Australia), Shaun Ashwin Kumar (Rockdale, Australia) and Joerg Pesch (Mechelen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the physical state of a stimulating assembly to, for example, detect the occurrence of an adverse event. More specifically, an elongate stimulating asse...