Sonitus Medical, Inc.

Align Technology, Inc.

Soundmed, LLC

Endotex Interventional Systems, Inc.

Other

Voyage Medical, Inc.

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Boston Scientific Cupertino Corporation

Apmed Solutions, Inc.

Amir Abolfathi

Loc X Phan

Vahid Saadat

Eric E Kuo

John C Spiridigliozzi

Peter G Knopp

Huafeng Wen

Christoph Menzel

Farhad Khosravi

Robert Eugene Tricca

Chunhua Li

Jennifer C Chen

Benjamin Ming Wu

Michael Hogendijk

Reza Kassayan

Chris A Rothe

Ruey-Feng Peh

Edmund A Tam

Phillips Alexander Benton

Wenda Carlyle

Philippe De Smedt

Keith Ryan Wolf

Beth Ann Cooney

Jason R Shelton

Scott H West

Kevin H Van Bladel

Andrew C Beers

Isidro Matias Gandionco

Michael R Ross

Richard Scott Rader

Ulrich Sigwart

Joe Breeland

Brian K Asselin

Jason Shelton

David Etheridge

Emir Deljkich

Ike Udechuku

Ikechukwu Chibuzo Udechuku

Christopher Lolachi

Wenda C Carlyle

A virtual health-care electronic commerce community includes a network to communicate information relating to the community; one or more patients coupled to the network; one or more treating professionals coupled to the network; and a server coupled to the network, the server storing data for each patient and performing patient data visualization in response to a user request.

Health-care systems and methods

Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device. The electronic and transducer assembly may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a receiver to process and amplify the signals and transmit the processed sounds via a vibrating transducer element coupled to a tooth or other bone structure, such as the maxillary, mandibular, or palatine bone structure.

Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations

A dental template to position an object on a patient's tooth includes digitizing the patient's tooth; adding virtual objects to predetermined locations on the digitized tooth; and fabricating the dental template to locate the object on the patient's tooth. The template can be used for etching or for positioning brackets on teeth.

Systems and methods for fabricating a dental template

Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals.

Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals

Actuator systems for oral-based appliances utilizing transducers which are attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a dental or oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such oral appliances may be a custom-made device which receives incoming sounds and transmits the processed sounds via a vibrating transducer element. The transducer element may utilize electromagnetic or piezoelectric transducer mechanisms and may be positioned directly along the dentition or along an oral appliance housing in various configurations.

Actuator systems for oral-based appliances

An intra-oral appliance for transmitting sound via bone conduction and optimized for comfort, safety, speech intelligibility, eating and drinking and extended wear by the user including an actuator to provide bone conduction sound transmission; a transceiver coupled to the actuator to cause the actuator to generate sound; and a first chamber containing the actuator and the transceiver, said first chamber adapted to be coupled to one or more teeth of the user.

Intraoral appliance for sound transmission via bone conduction

Health-care E-commerce systems and methods

Visualization apparatus and methods for transseptal access are described herein where intravascular access across a septal wall is facilitated via devices which provide for direct visual viewing of tissue area. Such a system may include a deployment catheter and an attached imaging hood deployable into an expanded configuration. In use, the imaging hood is placed against or adjacent to the tissue to be imaged in a body lumen that is normally filled with an opaque bodily fluid such as blood. A translucent or transparent fluid can be pumped into the imaging hood until the fluid displaces any blood leaving a clear region of tissue to be imaged via an imaging element in the deployment catheter. Any number of therapeutic tools or a guidewire can be passed through the catheter and into the imaging hood for crossing the septal wall and passing the guidewire or instruments therethrough.

Visualization apparatus for transseptal access

Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device. The electronic and transducer assembly may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a receiver to process and amplify the signals and transmit the processed sounds via a vibrating transducer element coupled to a tooth or other hone structure, such as the maxillary, mandibular, or palatine bone structure.

Growing community of inventors

Woodside, CA, United States of America

Amir Abolfathi