US Patent Issued to Cochlear on June 3 for "Monitoring stimulating assembly insertion" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,606, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Monitoring stimulating assembly insertion" was invented by John Michael Heasman (Hampton, Australia), Peter Gibson (South Coogee, Australia), Stephen O'Leary (Melbourne, Australia) and Luke Campbell (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the insertion of an intra-cochlear stimulating assembly for the occurrence of one or more insertion stop conditions. The insertion stop conditions are detectable events indicating that movement of the stimulating assembly into a recipient's cochlea shoul...