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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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