ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,070, issued on May 13, was assigned to OTICON MEDICAL A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Implantable hearing device for enhancing the hearing capability of a user" was invented by Yannick Vaiarello (Vallauris, France), Franck Mattioli (Vallauris, France) and Julien Venet (Vallauris, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable hearing device for enhancing the hearing capability of a user is disclosed. The implantable hearing device may include: at least one housing having a top side to be substantially directed towards the skin of a user and at least one bottom side to be substantially directed opposite to the top side, at least one imp...