ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,171, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Acoustic output device with antenna" was invented by Werner Meskens (Opwijk, Belgium), Tadeusz Jurkiewicz (Rozelle, Australia), Steve Winnal (Stanmore, Australia) and Limin Zhong (Denistone, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A BTE prosthetic device for use in a medical system or prosthesis comprises a connector configured to mechanically attach an auxiliary device of the system to the BTE prosthetic device. The connector is electrically connected to a transceiver of the BTE prosthetic device. The connector operates as an electromagnetic an...