ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,048, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).
"Implantable stimulating assembly" was invented by Nicholas Charles Pawsey (Macquarie University, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode array, including a plurality of electrodes, and an electrode carrier carrying the plurality of electrodes, wherein the electrode carrier is made of a viscoelastic material, such as by way of example, a viscoelastic silicone, wherein in some embodiments, the electrode carrier is devoid of non-viscoelastic silicone. In an exemplary embodiment, the electrode carrier is configured to recover to a curved...