ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,921, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Implantable medical device system with multi-band antenna arrangement" was invented by Guilhem Yvan Vavelin (Nice, France), Thomas Leroux (Valbonne, France) and Gauthier Jodin (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to techniques that provide a medical device component with the ability to communicate in both the near-field and far-field via a single antenna arrangement. More specifically, a medical device component includes an electronics circuit, a coil driver, an antenna arrangement, ...