US 11,865,338 B2
Prosthesis functionality backup
Rowan Christopher Page, Macquarie University (AU); and Kenneth Oplinger, Macquarie University (AU)
Assigned to Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Appl. No. 16/758,585
Filed by COCHLEAR LIMITED, Macquarie University (AU)
PCT Filed Oct. 22, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/058220
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 23, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/082061, PCT Pub. Date May 2, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/575,571, filed on Oct. 23, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0346013 A1, Nov. 5, 2020
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36038 (2017.08) [A61N 1/36031 (2017.08); A61N 1/37247 (2013.01); H04R 25/554 (2013.01); H04R 25/558 (2013.01); H04R 2225/61 (2013.01); H04R 2225/67 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body worn device, comprising:
a chassis; and
a functional suite supported by the chassis, wherein
the device is configured to be worn on a recipient of a prosthesis, and
the device is configured such that the functional suite automatically provides second functionality when the chassis is removed from the body of the recipient, the second functionality being related to the prosthesis.