ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,785, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Execution and initialisation of processes for a device" was invented by Martin Evert Gustaf Hillbratt (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Kristian Gunnar Asnes (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting when a device is placed into an operational position are disclosed. Upon determination that the device is in the operational position, one or more processes can be executed. Execution or initialization of the processes upon detection of the operational position provides for the determination of optimal settings than w...