ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,211, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Charging-induced implant operation" was invented by Jan Raymond Janssen (St. Ives, Australia), Koen Van den Heuvel (Hove, Belgium) and Richard Bruce Murphy (Kirribili, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for initiating a night-time mode of operation in an implantable hearing prosthesis in response to detection of night-time recharging operations. More specifically, an implantable hearing prosthesis comprises a rechargeable battery that is configured to be recharged via an external night-time charging device, su...