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US20090312769 |
STYLET FOR STIMULATING MEDICAL IMPLANTS
An elongate stylet for removable insertion into a lumen of a stimulating medical implant, comprising a plurality of contiguous longitudinal regions, wherein a cross-sectional area of at least some...
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US20090306754 |
TELESCOPIC ELECTRODE ARRAY
A telescoping electrode assembly and method of implantation of a telescoping electrode assembly are provided herein. The electrode assembly may comprise a plurality of telescoping sections that...
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US20090306745 |
ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR DELIVERING LONGITUDINAL AND RADIAL STIMULATION
An elongate electrode assembly for a cochlear implant comprising a plurality of sections arranged longitudinally along a length of the elongate electrode assembly. The sections each comprise one or...
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US20090287277 |
IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATION ELECTRODE INTERFACE
An implantable neurostimulation electrode interface and related system arrangements and methods are provided. The implantable interface may include at least a first stimulation signal channel for...
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US20090275818 |
APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INSERTION OF AN IMPLANT
The present invention provides an apparatus for insertion of a flexible implant into a body section of an implant recipient, the apparatus comprising an elongate guiding section having a...
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US20090254163 |
SECURING AN IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE IN A PATIENT
An apparatus and method for implanting and securing an implanted medical device in a recipient. The implantable medical device of the generally includes a stimulating lead assembly that comprises...
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US20090204177 |
MAINTAINING LOW IMPEDANCE OF ELECTRODES
An implantable tissue-stimulating device for an implantee comprising: an elongate member, and at least one electrode disposed on the elongate member, wherein at least a portion of the device is...
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US20090187237 |
Inner Hair Cell Stimulation Model for Use by a Cochlear Implant System
The stimulation provided in the electrically stimulated cochlea is modulated in accordance with the amplitude of a received acoustic signal and the onset of a sound in a received acoustic signal to...
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US20090143848 |
Cochlear Stimulation Device
A cochlear stimulation device comprising an electrode array designed to provide enhanced charge injection capacity necessary for neural stimulation. The electrode array comprises electrodes with...
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US20090076581 |
IMPLANTATABLE COMPONENT HAVING AN ACCESSIBLE LUMEN AND A DRUG RELEASE CAPSULE FOR INTRODUCTION INTO SAME
In one aspect of the invention, a method for delivering drugs from an implantable medical device to an implantee is disclosed, comprising implanting the medical device having a receptacle...
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US20090062896 |
Minimizing Trauma During and After Insertion of a Cochlear Lead
A method for delivering dexamethasone base (DXMb) via an implantable electrode includes coupling DXMb to the implantable electrode and inserting the implantable electrode into animal tissue, the...
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US20090043369 |
Flexible Biodegradable Coating For Implantable Medical Devices
An implantable device includes an implantable cochlear electrode carrier for electrically stimulating cochlear tissue. A flexible lubricant coating covers the outer surface of at least a portion of...
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US20090043358 |
ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR A STIMULATING MEDICAL DEVICE
An implantable electrode assembly for a stimulating medical device, the electrode assembly comprising: an elongate carrier member; one or more electrodes disposed on said carrier member; and one or...
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US20090036962 |
Simultaneous Intracochlear Stimulation
A method, system and computer product for simultaneously activating at least two electrodes in a multichannel electrode array is presented. The method includes calculating pulse amplitudes of the...
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US20090030483 |
ELONGATE IMPLANTABLE CARRIER MEMBER HAVING AN EMBEDDED STIFFENER
A cochlear implant comprising: a speech processor for processing received sounds to generate coded stimulation control signals; a stimulator unit configured to generate stimulation signals in...
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US20090024184 |
COCHLEAR IMPLANT UTILIZING MULTIPLE-RESOLUTION CURRENT SOURCES AND FLEXIBLE DATA ENCODING
A programmable cochlear implant system utilizes multiple-resolution current sources and flexible data-encoding scheme for transcutaneous transmission. In certain embodiments, the number of current...
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US20090012594 |
COMPLIMENTARY DRUG DELIVERY SHEATH FOR AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE
A complementary drug delivery sheath for implantable medical devices. The complementary drug delivery sheath is covered, impregnated or otherwise carries one or more drugs. The complementary...
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US20080312717 |
Hybrid Cochlear Implant
An electrode array ( 30 ) which is able to be inserted to a desired depth within the cochlea to provide useful percepts for the recipient which will also preferably not cause damage to the...
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US20080234793 |
SECURING AN IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE IN A PATIENT
An apparatus and method for implanting and securing an implanted medical device in a recipient. The implantable medical device of the generally includes an electrode assembly that comprises an...
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US20080209723 |
FEEDTHROUGH FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS
A method ( 10 ) of forming an electrically conducting feedthrough. The method ( 10 ) comprises a first step ( 11 ) of forming an electrically conductive structure ( 21 ) comprising a sacrificial...
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US20080119920 |
COCHLEAR ELECTRODE ARRAY
An implantable tissue-stimulating prosthesis such as a cochlear implant system comprising an elongate carrier member having a distal end, a proximal end, and at least one electrode positioned...
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US20080077221 |
Telescopic Array for A Cochlear Implant
A cochlear implant device that has an elongate member with electrode(s) supported thereon. The elongate member comprises a first portion that is insertable into the implantee and at least one...
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US20080064918 |
Remote Sensing and Actuation of Fluid of Inner Ear
A system for communicating with the inner ear is described. An acoustic transducer converts between electrical energy and mechanical energy. An inner ear catheter has a distal end in vibratory...
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US20080058914 |
Intra-Cochlear Electrode with a Partially Detachable Hydrophilic Segment for Deferred Self-Positioning
A perimodiolar electrode for cochlear implantation includes an electrode carrier having a front end and a back end. The electrode carrier includes one or more contacts and a hydrophilic segment...
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US20080033520 |
Implantable Neuro-Stimulation Electrode with Drug Elution Material
An implantable electrode with a fluid reservoir is described. An implantable electrode carrier has an outer surface including electrode contacts for electrically stimulating nearby neural tissue. A...
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US20080027527 |
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...
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US20080027525 |
Electrode Structure
A method is provided for producing electrode structures which have a supply line and a contact surface connected thereto, wherein a planar electrode material is roll bonded onto a planar carrier...
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US20080015669 |
Bi-planar electrode with shunting gates
A neural stimulator includes an electrically non-conductive carrier and at least two electrically conductive electrodes disposed on opposite sides of the carrier. The electrodes on the opposite...
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