ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,015, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Device with supplemental magnet set" was invented by Stefan Kristo (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein are relevant to a wearable device configured to selectively receive a primary magnet set selected from among multiple primary magnet sets of varying magnetic strengths. A supplemental magnet set is used with the wearable device to supplement the selected primary magnet set to increase a strength of a magnetic connection. The wearable device can selectively couple with a selected cover. The cover can be ...