Patent

1986061140: Prosthetic Electrode Array (1986 - 1997)

From: 12 August 1986
To: 10 April 1997
Website: https://ipsearch.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/1986061140

Summary

The patent for the invention Prosthetic Electrode Array (application number 1986061140) was granted on 14 July 1989. The Australian Patent Office awarded the patent in respect of the provisional application (made on 19 August 1985) by The University of Melbourne with the inventors named as Graeme Clark and Karl-Heinz Burkhard. The effective date of the patent was recorded as 12 August 1986. The complete application was made on 2 December 1988 by Maxwell Norman Ferguson, Acting Vice-Principal, on behalf of the university. The patent ceased on 10 April 1997 (publication date).

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Burkhard, Franz-Heinz Gunther
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