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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177112 | Fixation devices for cochlear implant speech processors A kit of fixation devices for cochlear implant speech processors comprising a spring loaded alligator clip including front and rear pivotally connected legs, a top portion of the front leg forming a support latch with an upper portion of one of several vertically ex... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170679 | Spectral contrast enhancement in a cochlear implant speech processor Psychophysical tests are administered to cochlear implant (CI) users to determine a spectral modulation transfer function (SMTF), smallest detectable spectral contrast as a function of spectral modulation frequency, for each individual CI user. The determined SMTF f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165690 | Compensation current optimization for cochlear implant systems An exemplary cochlear stimulation method includes applying a main current to a first electrode associated with a first pitch and disposed within a cochlea of a patient, concurrently applying a compensation current to a second electrode disposed within the cochlea an... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165689 | Methods and systems of compensating for a disabled electrode An exemplary method of compensating for a disabled electrode within an array of electrodes includes selecting at least two non-adjacent electrodes surrounding the disabled electrode and simultaneously applying stimulation current to the at least two non-adjacent ele... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162683 | Miniature electrical connectors A miniature electrical connector comprising a floating and vertically orientable spring contact within but not physically secured to an electrically-conductive connector block of a female connector wherein the spring contact and connector block are designed such tha... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155748 | Methods of converting a behind-the-ear speech processor unit into a body worn speech processor unit Apparatus and methods for converting one type of speech processor unit into another type of speech processor unit. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155747 | Electric and acoustic stimulation fitting systems and methods Methods and systems for modifying the parameters of at least one hearing device for a patient with residual hearing provide needed orchestration of acoustic and electric stimulation of patients wearing such devices. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155746 | Cochlear implant sound processor with permanently integrated replenishable power source A cochlear implant sound processor is powered by a rechargeable battery that is permanently integrated into the sound processor. The sound processor contains an inductive coil that may be tuned to an external charging coil for battery recharging. The electronic circ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150527 | Electric and acoustic stimulation fitting systems and methods Methods and systems for modifying the parameters of at least one hearing device for a patient with residual hearing provide needed orchestration of acoustic and electric stimulation of patients wearing such devices. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135474 | Cochlear implant for an implantable cochlear stimulation system and method of assembly A cochlear implant for a cochlear stimulation system and method of assembling the implant comprising an implantable sealed housing comprising a metal feedthrough case and a metal bottom cover and containing cochlea stimulation circuitry, the feedthrough case compris... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8121698 | Outer hair cell stimulation model for the use by an intra-cochlear implant Contrast between various frequency components of sound is enhanced through a lateral suppression strategy to provide increased speech perception in the electrically stimulated cochlea. A received audio signal is divided into a plurality of input signals, wherein eac... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107661 | Listening device cap An assistive listening device cap attaches to a headpiece of a cochlear implant behind-the-ear (BTE) unit, an other BTE unit, an earhook, or an external component unit to supplement or replace components thereof. The cap may receive signals from sources outside the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103354 | Systems and methods for determining a threshold current level required to evoke a stapedial muscle reflex Exemplary cochlear implant systems include an implantable cochlear stimulator configured to be implanted within a patient and generate a stimulation current having an adjustable current level, one or more electrodes communicatively coupled to the stimulator and conf... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103353 | Digitally controlled RF amplifier with wide dynamic range output A push-pull amplifier efficiency provides a 4:1 (12 dB) course adjustment of power output by using a single digital control input. The amplifier is provided with an input voltage (VDD) having sixteen steps ranging from 1.25 volts to 3.00 volts. Based on the digital ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099169 | Methods and systems for providing a power signal to an implantable device A push-pull amplifier efficiency provides a 4:1 (12 dB) course adjustment of power output by using a single digital control input. The amplifier is provided with an input voltage (VDD) having sixteen steps ranging from 1.25 volts to 3.00 volts. Based on the digital ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8068914 | Speech processor cases A case for use with a speech processor unit including a housing configured to receive the speech processor unit and a connector configured to be connected to a connector on the speech processor unit. ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8027735 | Atraumatic high-retention headpiece A headpiece for a cochlear implant system includes a transcutaneous transmission coil that transfers power and/or data to an implantable device implanted under a user's skin. The headpiece includes a magnet for holding the transmission coil in close proximity to the... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027734 | Methods and systems of optimizing stimulation current applied to a cochlear implant patient Methods of optimizing stimulation current applied to a cochlear implant patient include determining a plurality of narrowband spectral modulation detection thresholds for the patient and adjusting a stimulation current applied to the patient in accordance with the n... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027733 | Optimizing pitch allocation in a cochlear stimulation system Optimizing pitch allocation in a cochlear stimulation system may include implanting an electrode array having a plurality of electrodes into the cochlea of a patient, where the electrode array has an associated implant fitting characteristic that defines a relations... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027732 | Integrated phase-shift power control transmitter for use with implantable device and method for use of the same Systems and methods for efficiently transmitting power using a high frequency (e.g., RF) telemetry transmitter are provided. The telemetry transmitter may include a fixed clock source (which may provide a fixed clock signal), telemetry phase shift circuitry (which m... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024046 | Systems for fitting a cochlear implant to a patient Systems for fitting an implantable cochlear stimulator to a patient include an interface unit configured to display a graphical representation of an implant fitting line as part of a graphical user interface. The implant fitting line has a slope and a horizontal pos... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023677 | In the ear auxiliary microphone system for behind the ear hearing prosthetic An In The Ear (ITE) microphone improves the acoustic response of a Behind The Ear (BTE) Implantable Cochlear Stimulation (ICS) system during telephone use. An acoustic seal provided by holding a telephone earpiece against the ear provides improved coupling of low fr... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8000797 | Systems and methods for providing neural stimulation with an asynchronous stochastic strategy The present invention provides methods and systems for selecting one or more channels of a neural implant to stimulate. A channel selection unit is configured to asynchronously and stochastically select the winning channel or channels based, in part, on the richness... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995771 | Beamforming microphone system A system and method for generating a beamforming signal is disclosed. A beam forming signal is generated by disposing a first microphone and a second microphone in horizontal coplanar alignment. The first and second microphones are used to detect a known signal to g... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983758 | Sound processing and stimulation systems and methods for use with cochlear implant devices Sound processing strategies for use with cochlear implant systems utilizing simultaneous stimulation of electrodes are provided. The strategies include computing a frequency spectrum of a signal representative of sound, arranging the spectrum into channels and assig... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970157 | In the ear auxiliary microphone system for behind the ear hearing prosthetic An In The Ear (ITE) microphone improves the acoustic response of a Behind The Ear (BTE) Implantable Cochlear Stimulation (ICS) system during telephone use. An acoustic seal provided by holding a telephone earpiece against the ear provides improved coupling of low fr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7953491 | Auto-referencing mixed-mode phase locked loop for audio playback applications Audio streaming is made available throughout the signal processing path of the speech processor of a cochlear implant or other audio signal processor. Audio streaming comprises the digitally phase locked playback of a real time n-bit digital audio stream, where n ma... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953490 | Methods and apparatus for cochlear implant signal processing A cochlear implant processing strategy increases speech clarity and provides higher temporal performance. The strategy determines the power spectral component within each channel, and dynamically selects or de-selects the channels through which a stimulation pulse i... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949412 | Coated electrode array having uncoated electrode contacts Implantable electrode leads, e.g. cochlear, spinal cord stimulation, or any type of neurostimulation leads, used in a patient's body to stimulate muscle or nerve tissue, provide enhanced stimulation for treating, e.g., hearing loss or chronic pain. One such lead inc... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941228 | Cochlear implant electrode and method of making same A cochlear stimulation lead and method of making a curved electrode array are provided. In one embodiment of the lead, while the curved section of the lead is curled further beyond its originally molded curvature and held in this position, a filling channel is fille... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937155 | Envelope-based amplitude mapping for cochlear implant stimulus An envelope based amplitude mapping achieves the signal compression required to provide a natural sound level without the high processor loading or waveform alteration. In one embodiment, the output of a family of parallel bandpass filters is processed by an envelop... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933657 | System and method for fitting a cochlear implant sound processor using alternative signals Alternative stimuli, i.e., stimuli other than the constant amplitude stimuli used in prior fitting schemes, are used to set the parameters of a cochlear implant system. The use of such alternative stimuli allows the entire fitting process to be completed in a very s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925355 | Systems and methods for determining a threshold current level required to evoke a stapedial muscle reflex Exemplary cochlear implant systems include an implantable cochlear stimulator configured to be implanted within a patient and generate a stimulation current having an adjustable current level, one or more electrodes communicatively coupled to the stimulator and conf... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925350 | Systems and methods for detecting an error associated with an implantable device Methods of detecting an error associated with an implantable device include powering up the implantable device with an external device, disabling a back-telemetry transmitter within the implanted device after the implanted device is powered up, detecting an error wi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920925 | Optimizing pitch and other speech stimuli allocation in a cochlear implant Errors in pitch (frequency) allocation within a cochlear implant are corrected in order to provide a significant and profound improvement in the quality of sound perceived by the cochlear implant user. In one embodiment, the user is stimulated with a reference signa... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920924 | Estimating flap thickness for cochlear implants A flap thickness measurement system includes a reference cochlear stimulation system. The reference cochlear stimulation system includes a sound processor, a transmitter that transmits a telemetric signal, and a cochlear stimulator having a receiver that receives th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916823 | Auto-referencing mixed-mode phase locked loop for audio playback applications Audio streaming is made available throughout the signal processing path of a speech (or audio) processor of a cochlear implant system. Audio streaming allows one to “listen in” to what a cochlear implant patient may be hearing. As an audio signal stream is recei... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904165 | Methods and systems for presenting an audio signal to a cochlear implant patient Methods and systems of presenting an audio signal to a cochlear implant patient include dividing the audio signal into a plurality of analysis channels, detecting an energy level within each of the analysis channels, selecting one or more of the analysis channels fo... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899547 | Level-dependent stimulation methods and systems An exemplary method includes an implantable stimulator simultaneously applying stimulation current to a stimulation site within a patient via at least one stimulating electrode and compensating current via one or more additional electrodes of opposite polarity as th... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899543 | Network interface module for bilateral cochlear implant systems A network interface module that forms part of a bilateral cochlear implant system which allows two standalone BTE units to be synchronized both temporally and tonotopically in order to maximize a patients listening experience. The bilateral cochlear network includes... | 03/01/2011 |
