US Patent Issued to Cochlear on May 6 for "Cochlear implant system with antenna detection, frequency switching and/or frequency tuning" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,834, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Cochlear implant system with antenna detection, frequency switching and/or frequency tuning" was invented by Julien Venet (Vallauris, France), Philippe Monier (Vallauris, France), Regis Pierquin (Vallauris, France) and Martin Besnard (Vallauris, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a first aspect, a sound processor unit of a cochlear implant system is disclosed. The sound processor unit comprises an electric circuit, which comprises a sound processor antenna with a sound processor antenna capacitance and a sound processor antenna ind...