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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7818066 | Remote status and control device for a cochlear implant system A hand-held remote unit functions as both a remote status device and a control device for a cochlear implant system. When placed near the headpiece of a cochlear implant system, the remote unit monitors the forward telemetry signals transmitted between an external s... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7769194 | In the ear auxiliary microphone 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. The microphone includes means for adjusting the position of the microphone to receive sound waves through a po... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7729774 | Shell for external components of hearing aid systems Detachable shells on hearing system components are used to provide protection to the hearing system components, to be visually pleasing, to provide visibility and to increase system attachment stability, among other functions. The detachable shells allow the overall... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7647120 | Dual cochlear/vestibular stimulator with control signals derived from motion and speech signals A system for treating patients affected both by hearing loss and by balance disorders related to vestibular hypofunction and/or malfunction, which includes sensors of sound and head movement, processing circuitry, a power source, and an implantable electrical stimul... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7599508 | 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 ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7574265 | Cochlear implant and simplified method for fitting same A bionic ear cochlear stimulation system has the capability to stimulate fast enough to induce stochastic neural firing, thereby acting to restore “spontaneous” neural activity. Such neurostimulation involves the use of a high rate pulsitile stimulation signal t... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7542806 | 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... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7493170 | Adaptive place-pitch ranking procedure for optimizing performance of a multi-channel neural stimulator An adaptive place-pitch ranking procedure for use with a cochlear implant or other neural stimulation system provides a systematic method for quantifying the magnitude and direction of errors along the place-pitch continuum. The method may be conducted and completed... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7319906 | Cochlear implant electrode and method of making same A cochlear stimulation lead and method of making an aggressively curved electrode array are provided. In one embodiment of the lead, while the curved section of the lead is curled further beyond the originally molded curvature and held in this position, a filling ch... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317945 | Method and system to convey the within-channel fine structure with a cochlear implant The present invention provides a cochlear stimulation system and method for capturing and translating fine time structure (“FTS”) in incoming sounds and delivering this information spatially to the cochlea. The system comprises a FTS estimator/analyzer and a cur... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317944 | System and method for using a multi-contact electrode to stimulate the cochlear nerve or other body tissue A system and method for preserving temporal and spatial resolution in complex sounds for poor performing patients having high stimulation thresholds is described. The system and method employs two or more adjacent electrode contacts to deliver concurrent stimulation... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315763 | Cochlear implant electrode and method of making same A cochlear stimulation lead having a pre-curved electrode array is provided. The molding process provides memory to the curved part of the lead. The lead may be made having a stylet insertion channel that extends from a slightly curved or substantially straight sect... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295878 | Implantable devices using rechargeable zero-volt technology lithium-ion batteries An implantable medical device, such as an implantable pulse generator (IPG) used with a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery having an anode electrode with a substrate made substantially from titanium. Such battery constr... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292891 | BioNet for bilateral cochlear implant systems A system for allowing bilateral cochlear implant systems to be networked together. An adapter module that forms part of the system allows two standalone BTE units to be synchronized both temporally and tonotopically in order to maximize a patients listening experien... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283877 | Method of measuring neural responses A new method of recording and processing neural responses (“NR”) is provided, wherein the method does not assume a linear system response and does not assume a linear response at the interface between electrodes and tissue. The method of the present invention ca... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277759 | Method of rapid neural response measurement without amplitude attenuation A method of recording neural responses reduces the inaccuracy of the recordings caused by nerve adaptation to repeated exposure of stimuli. In one embodiment, a maximum set of X number of successive stimuli are delivered through an electrode and the resulting neural... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7251530 | 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... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248929 | Implantable devices using rechargeable zero-volt technology lithium-ion batteries An implantable medical device, such as an implantable pulse generator (IPG) used with a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery having an anode electrode with a substrate made substantially from titanium. Such battery constr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7224815 | Hearing aid design A hearing aid module is shaped for insertion into a tunnel made through the soft tissue that connects the retro-auricular space with the ear canal. The hearing aid module contains a speaker or auditory transducer, a battery or other power source powering the module,... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225028 | Dual cochlear/vestibular stimulator with control signals derived from motion and speech signals A system for treating patients affected both by hearing loss and by balance disorders related to vestibular hypofunction and/or malfunction, which includes sensors of sound and head movement, processing circuitry, a power source, and an implantable electrical stimul... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212866 | Implantable neurostimulator having data repeater for long range control and data streaming A repeater device allows a remote unit to control, program and/or monitor a medical implant device from a much further distance than has heretofore been possible. Such repeater device also facilitates transmitting other signals, i.e., other than control signals, to ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206640 | Method and system for generating a cochlear implant program using multi-electrode stimulation to elicit the electrically-evoked compound action potential A multichannel cochlear implant system spatially spreads the excitation pattern in the target neural tissue by either: (1) rapid sequential stimulation of a small group of electrodes, or (2) simultaneously stimulating a small group of electrodes. Such multi-electrod... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7184836 | Implantable devices using rechargeable zero-volt technology lithium-ion batteries An implantable medical device, such as an implantable pulse generator (IPG) used with a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery having an anode electrode with a substrate made substantially from titanium. Such battery constr... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177691 | Implantable pulse generators using rechargeable zero-volt technology lithium-ion batteries An implantable medical device, such as an implantable pulse generator (IPG) used with a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, includes a rechargeable lithiumion battery having an anode electrode with a substrate made substantially from titanium. Such battery constru... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167572 | 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... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167754 | Low power inverted alterphasic stimulation in a cochlear implant An alterphasic inverting stimulation strategy for use with a multichannel cochlear implant system consumes less power than similar strategies, yet provides better sound quality. The alterphasic inverting strategy is a strategy wherein stimulation pulses are strictly... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7142926 | Quick connect earhook system for BTE devices A quick-connect system for mechanically and electrically connecting two components therebetween. In an exemplary embodiment, the mechanical quick-connect is comprised of: a receptacle in the first component; a barrel protruding from the second component; and a lock ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136706 | Distributed compression amplitude mapping for cochlear implants An implantable neural stimulation system, such as a cochlear implant system, utilizes a Distributed Compression Amplitude Mapping (DCAM) system to distribute signal compression between a pre-bandpass linear mapping function, and a post-bandpass compressive mapping f... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132173 | Self-centering braze assembly Braze and electrode wire assemblies, e.g., used with an implantable microstimulator, include a wire welded in the through-hole of an electrode, which electrode is brazed to a ceramic case that is brazed to a metal ring that is welded to a metal can. The braze joints... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130694 | Pulse skipping strategy Improved skipping strategies for cochlear or other multi-channel neural stimulation implants selects N out of M channels for stimulation during a given stimulation frame. A microphone transduces acoustic energy into an electrical signal. The electrical signal is pro... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120992 | Method of making an electronic module Compact electronic modules, which may be used with implantable microstimulators and other medical and non-medical devices, and manufacture/assembly of such modules are described. Component and circuitry designs utilize unique redistribution techniques and attachment... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110821 | Channel interaction cancellation within a multichannel neural stimulation system A way of reducing channel interaction is provided in a multichannel neural implant that has the ability to stimulate multiple tissue or nerve sites simultaneously. Channel interaction is minimized through measuring or estimating what the channel interaction is or wi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110822 | Remote status and control device for a cochlear implant system A hand-held remote unit functions as both a remote status device and a control device for a cochlear implant system. When placed near the headpiece of a cochlear implant system, the remote unit monitors the forward telemetry signal transmitted between an external sp... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110823 | RF telemetry link for establishment and maintenance of communications with an implantable device Communication between an implantable device(s), such as a neural stimulator, and an external remote device(s), e.g., a computer in a clinician's office, a computer in a patient's home, or a handheld patient remote control, is performed entirely via an RF link. In or... | 09/19/2006 |
