US Patent Issued to Cochlear on June 17 for "Medical device component with dual-band coil assembly" (Belgian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,980, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Medical device component with dual-band coil assembly" was invented by Adam Mujaj (Redfern, Australia) and Werner Meskens (Opwijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques that provide an external component of an implantable medical device system with the ability to use a single inductive coil assembly to both receive charging signals from an inductive charger and for bi-directional transcutaneous communication with an implantable component. In particular, an external component comprises a coil assembly comprising a...