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7616999 |
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)...
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7603174 |
Stimulation of the amygdalohippocampal complex to treat neurological conditions
A system and/or method treating for a neurological disorder by brain region stimulation. The system and/or method comprises a probe and a device to provide stimulation. The probe has a stimulation...
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7580754 |
Implantable acoustic sensor
An acoustic sensor, suitable for use in a totally implanted hearing prosthesis, uses an elongate member and piezoelectric sensor to detect acoustic signals when the sensor is implanted so as to be...
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7574264 |
Multirate cochlear stimulation strategy and apparatus
A cochlear implant system in which information about the periodicity of a received audio signal in each filter channel is used as a factor in determining the rate of stimulation applied to a...
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7571005 |
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...
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7561920 |
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...
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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...
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7522961 |
Inner hair cell stimulation model for the use by an intra-cochlear implant
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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7450724 |
Hearing aid adjustment device
A hearing device fitting device that includes a computing device ( 3 ), connected on an input side with a connection (E 3 ) for data entry and on an output side with a connection (A 3 ) for a...
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7447549 |
Methods and systems for denoising a neural recording signal
Methods of denoising a neural recording signal include correlating a neural recording signal with a number of basis functions to obtain a number of weights and then multiplying the weights with the...
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7444185 |
High contact count, sub-miniature, fully implantable cochlear prosthesis
An active electrode array provides a programmable number of electrode contacts through which stimulation current may be selectively delivered to surrounding tissue, preferably through the use of...
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7406352 |
Laminated electrode for a cochlear implant
An implantable cochlear implant electrode array ( 30 ) that can adopt a first, preferably straight, configuration selected to allow the array to be inserted into the cochlea and at least a second,...
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7349741 |
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...
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7343200 |
Methods and systems for automatically determining a neural response threshold current level
Methods of automatically determining a neural response threshold current level include identifying one or more neural response signals at one or more corresponding stimulation current levels,...
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7333858 |
Pulse burst electrical stimulation of nerve or tissue fibers
A method for stimulating nerve or tissue fibers and a prosthetic hearing device implanting same. The method comprises: generating a stimulation signal comprising a plurality of pulse bursts each...
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7321797 |
Incremental stimulation sound processor
In one aspect of the invention, a cochlear implant constructed and arranged to successively generate stimulation signals each comprising at least one stimulus pulse such that said successive...
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7317946 |
Telemetry antenna for an implantable medical device
A telemetry antenna for an implantable medical device includes one or more portions having a non-linear configuration. In some embodiments, the non-linear configuration provides an antenna having a...
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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...
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7315761 |
Electrical stimulation system and method for treating tinnitus
According to one aspect, an electrical stimulation system for treating tinnitus is provided. The system includes an electrical stimulation lead adapted for implantation into the person's skull for...
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7292892 |
Methods and systems for fitting a cochlear implant to a patient
An exemplary method of fitting a coeblear implant system to a patient includes establishing an implant fitting line having a slope and a position. The implant fitting line represents a relationship...
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7277760 |
Encoding fine time structure in presence of substantial interaction across an electrode array
A method for reducing the effects of decreased resolution in a cochlear implant worn by an individual includes 1) determining the value of the individual's resolution region, 2) analyzing a...
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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...
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7272446 |
Power efficient electrical stimulation
A method and device are disclosed for neural stimulation with improved power consumption and/or effectiveness. The stimulus generator is arranged, for example via a look up table, to recognize...
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7269461 |
Double stylet insertion tool for a cochlear implant electrode array
A cochlear implant electrode assembly device ( 10 ) comprising an elongate electrode carrier member ( 11 ), a first stiffening element ( 15 a ), and a second stiffening element ( 15 b ). The...
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7248926 |
Status indicator for implantable systems
A status indicator is provided for use with a medical device that employs a power transmitting coil. In one embodiment, the status indicator comprises a receiving coil and feedback element. The...
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7242985 |
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...
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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,...
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7225026 |
Monitor for auditory prosthesis
An auditory prosthesis includes an implanted component and an external component. The external component includes a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic signals to the implanted component;...
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7194314 |
Cochlear implant including a modiolar return electrode
A cochlear implant wherein the return path of the electrode array is located to increase current flow through the modiolus. The return electrode is placed at various locations outside the cochlea,...
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7146227 |
Combination stylet and straightening coating for a cochlear implant electrode array
A cochlear implant electrode assembly device ( 10 ) comprising an elongate electrode carrier member ( 11 ), a stiffening element ( 15 ), and a stiffening sheath ( 16 ) that at least partially...
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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...
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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...
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7103417 |
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...
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7082332 |
Sound processor for a cochlear implant
The sound processor and method uses a model of basilar membrane motion to select stimuli, based upon the predicted motion which the acoustic signal presented would produce in an acoustically...
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7039466 |
Spatial decimation stimulation in an implantable neural stimulator, such as a cochlear implant
A cochlear implant system, or other neural stimulation system, has the capability to stimulate fast enough to induce stochastic neural firing so as to restore “spontaneous” neural activity. The...
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6915166 |
Optimizing cochlear implant electrode selection
A method is described to allow for better selection of electrodes for neural stimulation, for example in a cochlear implant. A series of stimuli, at different stimulation levels, are provided at...
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6907130 |
Speech processing system and method using pseudospontaneous stimulation
A apparatus and method for inner ear implants is provided that generates signal processing stochastic independence activity across the excited neural population. A high rate pulse train can produce...
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6879855 |
Zinc air battery and its uses
The invention is a method for increasing the airflow to a zinc-air battery such that the energy density is 500 mwh/cc to 1000 mwh/cc. This allows 8 to 16 hours use as a primary (throw-away)...
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6736770 |
Implantable medical device comprising an hermetically sealed housing
The invention relates to an implantable medical device having an hermetically tight housing, which houses an electronic unit as well as an electrochemical energy storage for supplying the medical...
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6628195 |
Tactile stimulation device for use by a deaf person
The tactile stimulation device designed to be used by a deaf person includes, in particular, an electroacoustic transducer. The invention is noteworthy in that the device consists of a case which...
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6611717 |
Implant device
An improved cochlear implant and method of stimulating are disclosed. The method comprises stimulating an electrode array using a set of current stimuli having different geometries, so as to...
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6572531 |
Implantable middle ear implant
A hearing aid comprised of conventional cochlear implant electronics implanted in the middle ear and coupled to an actuator configured to mechanically vibrate the middle ear ossicles. The implant...
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6560488 |
Method for rotatably securing headpiece to the human body
An improved hair-clip rotatably secures a headpiece of a Implantable Cochlear Stimulation (ICS) system adjacent to an implantable device of the ICS system. The hair-clip includes three fingers to...
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6556870 |
Partially inserted cochlear implant
A cochlear implant system has a signal processor that fits in the ear canal of a user. The signal processor processes an acoustic signal present in the ear of the user to produce a representative...
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6496734 |
Auditory prosthesis with automated voice muting using the stapedius muscle reflex
An auditory prosthesis includes a sound sensor that senses both ambient sounds and sounds uttered by the patient. The prosthesis includes a monitor that senses a physiological parameter indicative...
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6480820 |
Method of processing auditory data
A method for the real-time transformation of an electrical signal representative of a sound wave that includes the steps of providing an electrical signal representative of a sound wave,...
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6470214 |
Method and device for implementing the radio frequency hearing effect
A modulation process with a fully suppressed carrier and input preprocessor filtering to produce an encoded output; for amplitude modulation (AM) and audio speech preprocessor filtering,...
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6466911 |
Electrotactile vocoder using handset with stimulating electrodes
An electrotactile vocoder includes a handset ( 3 ) carrying stimulating electrodes ( 9 ) positioned adjacent openings ( 8 ) in the handset and electrically contacting the fingers when the handset...
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6466688 |
Apparatus and method for detecting and identifying organisms, especially pathogens, using the aura signature of the organism
An aura detection system for detecting pathogens through the detection of a specific aura signature of the pathogen or a creature carrying the pathogen. The system includes a transmitter for...
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6394947 |
Implantable hearing aid with tinnitus masker or noiser
Partially or fully implantable hearing aid for rehabilitation of an inner ear hearing disorder, with a microphone ( 10 ) which delivers an audio signal, an electronic signal processing and...
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