ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,186, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Power and data transfer in hearing prostheses" was invented by Werner Meskens (Opwijk, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to techniques for separately transferring power and data from an external device to an implantable component of a partially or fully implantable medical device. The separated power and data transfer techniques use a single external coil and a single implantable coil. The external coil is part of an external resonant circuit, while the implantable coil is part of an imp...