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公开(公告)号:US20230115968A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-13
申请号:US17499813
申请日:2021-10-12
申请人: ADVANCED BIONICS AG
摘要: A system including a cochlear implant with a cochlear lead including a plurality of electrodes, an antenna, a stimulation processor operably connected to the antenna and to the cochlear lead, and a magnet apparatus, adjacent to the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a frame within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, and only two elongate diametrically magnetized magnets that are located in the frame, that are separated from one another by a fixed non-zero distance, that each define a longitudinal axis and a N-S direction, and that are rotatable about the longitudinal axis relative to the frame, and an external device including an axially magnetized disk-shaped positioning magnet and an antenna adjacent to the axially magnetized disk-shaped positioning magnet.
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公开(公告)号:US20220367028A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-17
申请号:US17634101
申请日:2020-08-20
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
发明人: Ersin Avci , Tim Nauwelaers , Volkmar Hamacher , Pierre Guillon
摘要: An illustrative insertion management system may be configured to provide, as a first input to a machine learning model, geometric model data specific to a recipient of a cochlear implant and representative of a geometrical model of a cochlea of the recipient, provide, as a second input to the machine learning model, procedure data representative of one or more contextual attributes of a lead insertion procedure in which an electrode lead is inserted to the cochlea of the recipient, and generate, based on an output of the machine learning model that takes into account the geometric model data and the procedure data, procedure assistance data configured to assist a user in performing the lead insertion procedure.
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公开(公告)号:US20220305252A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17690912
申请日:2022-03-09
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
发明人: Uli Gommel , Martin Sandoval Perez , James George Elcoate Smith , Nicholas Wise , Enrique Gandaria
摘要: An electrode lead for a cochlear implant system may include a tube having an interior volume and an outer peripheral surface; a plurality of stimulating electrodes disposed on a distal portion of the electrode lead; a ground electrode disposed on a proximal portion of the electrode lead for providing a current return path for stimulation current generated by the plurality of stimulation electrodes, wherein the ground electrode is ring-shaped and is fixed on and around the outer peripheral surface of the tube; and a ground wire extending within the interior volume of the tube to the ground electrode and being electrically connected to the ground electrode through an opening in a wall of the tube.
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公开(公告)号:US11420055B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-23
申请号:US16859577
申请日:2020-04-27
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
发明人: Kanthaiah Koka , Leonid M. Litvak
摘要: A stapedius reflex threshold determination system directs a cochlear implant and a loudspeaker to apply a first electro-acoustic stimulation event to a patient, and determines that a first evoked response that occurs within the patient in response to the first electro-acoustic stimulation event has a level within a predetermined threshold amount of a baseline evoked response level. Based on that determination, the system detects that a stapedius reflex within the patient is not triggered. The system also directs the cochlear implant and the loudspeaker to apply a second electro-acoustic stimulation event to the patient, and determines that a second evoked response that occurs within the patient in response to the second electro-acoustic stimulation event has a level at least the predetermined threshold amount lower than the baseline evoked response level. Based on this determination, the system detects that the stapedius reflex within the patient is triggered.
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公开(公告)号:US20220249844A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-11
申请号:US17620040
申请日:2020-07-10
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
摘要: An exemplary system is configured to maintain data representative a machine learning model for use in a cochlear implant system and train the machine learning model. The training may include applying audio content as a training input to the machine learning model, the machine learning model configured to apply a machine learning heuristic to the audio content to output an electrical signal representative of the audio content; applying the electrical signal to a brain processing model, the brain processing model configured to output synthesized audio content representative of the electrical signal; generating an error metric representative of a difference between the audio content and the synthesized audio content; and feeding back the error metric into the machine learning model, the machine learning model configured to use the error metric to adjust the machine learning heuristic applied to the audio content.
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公开(公告)号:US20220123603A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-21
申请号:US17566870
申请日:2021-12-31
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
IPC分类号: H02J50/80 , H02J50/27 , H04R1/10 , H01Q1/24 , G01R23/02 , H04R25/00 , A61N1/372 , G06F1/04 , A61N1/36 , A61N1/378
摘要: A system includes electronic circuitry that receives a self-clocking differential signal comprising a data signal encoded with a clock signal at a dock frequency. The electronic circuitry is configured to recover, from the self-docking differential signal, the data signal and the dock signal. Then, based on the recovered dock signal, the electronic circuitry is configured to wirelessly transmit, to an implantable stimulator implanted within a recipient, a forward telemetry signal representing data recovered from the data signal. Corresponding systems, methods, devices, and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11260219B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-01
申请号:US16596961
申请日:2019-10-09
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
发明人: R. Tissa Karunasiri
摘要: An exemplary sound processor included in a cochlear implant system may include a control facility that represents a first frequency domain signal to a patient by 1) directing a cochlear implant included in the cochlear implant system to apply, during a first stimulation frame, a first monophasic stimulation pulse representative of a first temporal portion of the first frequency domain signal that corresponds to the first stimulation frame, the first monophasic stimulation pulse having a first polarity, and 2) directing the cochlear implant to apply, during a second stimulation frame that is temporally subsequent to the first stimulation frame, a second monophasic stimulation pulse representative of a second temporal portion of the first frequency domain signal that corresponds to the second stimulation frame, the second monophasic stimulation pulse configured to at least partially charge balance the first monophasic stimulation pulse and having a second polarity opposite the first polarity.
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公开(公告)号:US11185702B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16027220
申请日:2018-07-03
申请人: ADVANCED BIONICS AG
摘要: An antenna assembly for use with a medical implant includes an antenna that defines at least one turn and an electromagnetic shield.
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公开(公告)号:US20210337326A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-28
申请号:US17258936
申请日:2018-07-29
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
摘要: An exemplary cochlear implant system for use by a recipient includes a microphone assembly and an off-the-ear (OTE) sound processor communicatively coupled with the microphone assembly. The microphone assembly includes a microphone configured to capture an audio signal representative of sound presented to the recipient, and a retention device configured to hold the microphone in place near an entrance to an ear canal of an ear of the recipient. The OTE sound processor includes a housing configured to be worn on a head of the recipient at a location that is off the ear of the recipient, and electronic circuitry included within the housing. The electronic circuitry is configured to generate stimulation parameters that, when transmitted to a cochlear implant implanted within the recipient, direct the cochlear implant to apply electrical stimulation representative of the captured audio signal to the recipient. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20210322763A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-21
申请号:US17258922
申请日:2018-07-23
申请人: Advanced Bionics AG
发明人: Sung Jin Lee , Jeryle L. Walter , Honggang Jiang
摘要: An exemplary electrode lead includes a flexible body formed of a flexible insulating material, an electrode contact disposed on a side of the flexible body, a coiled electrode wire provided within the flexible body so as to extend along a length of the flexible body and electrically connect the electrode contact to a signal source, and a coiled reinforcing element provided within the flexible body so as to extend together with the coiled electrode wire along the length of the flexible body. A winding direction of the coiled electrode wire is opposite a winding direction of the coiled reinforcing element and a winding pitch of the coiled electrode wire is smaller than a winding pitch of the coiled reinforcing element. Corresponding methods of manufacturing an electrode lead are also described.
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