US Patent Issued to Cochlear on June 3 for "Implantable device migration control" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,605, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Implantable device migration control" was invented by Grahame Walling (Macquarie University, Australia), James G. E. Smith (Macquarie University, Australia), Julia Mitchell (Macquarie University, Australia), Krishna Sivaraman (Macquarie University, Australia) and Graeme Vincent (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are disclosed for a stimulator unit in a medical device, such as an implantable component of a cochlear implant. In embodiments, the stimulator unit comprises a bottom wall configured to be ...