Advanced Bionics Ag

Charles C Finley

Leonid Michael Litvak

Aniket Saoji

Kanthaiah Koka

R Tissa Karunasiri

Smita S Agrawal

Gulamali Emadi

Lee F Hartley

Guillermo A Calle

Sarah Elizabeth Clabeaux

Steve Hazard

James George Elcoate Smith

Sung Jin Lee

A cochlear implant including a cochlear lead, an antenna, a stimulation processor, and an implant magnet apparatus, associated with the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a first disk-shaped magnet member, located within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, including a magnetic north portion ('N-portion'), a magnetic south portion ('S-portion') and an amagnetic portion (&#x201c;AM-portion&#x201d;), and a second disk-shaped magnet member, located within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, including a N-portion, a S-portion and an AM-portion.

Cochlear implants having MRI-compatible magnet apparatus

Apparatus and methods for installing a magnet into a cochlear implant.

Magnet installation systems and methods for use with cochlear implants

An exemplary system includes 1) a programming device configured to be located external to a cochlear implant patient and communicatively coupled to a cochlear implant system associated with the patient, 2) a programming interface device communicatively coupled to the programming device and configured to be located external to the patient, and 3) a receiver communicatively coupled directly to the programming interface device. The programming device directs at least one of the cochlear implant system and the receiver to apply stimulation to the patient, records an evoked response that occurs in response to the stimulation, and performs a predetermined action in accordance with the evoked response. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.

Programming systems for eliciting evoked responses in a cochlear implant patient and performing predetermined actions in accordance with the evoked responses

An exemplary system includes 1) an electro-acoustic stimulation ('EAS') sound processor configured to be located external to a patient, 2) a cochlear implant communicatively coupled to the EAS sound processor and configured to be implanted within the patient, 3) an electrode array communicatively coupled to the cochlear implant and configured to be located within a cochlea of the patient, and 4) a receiver communicatively coupled to the EAS sound processor and configured to be in communication with an ear of the patient. The EAS sound processor directs at least one of the cochlear implant and the receiver to apply stimulation to the patient, records an evoked response that occurs in response to the stimulation, and performs a predetermined action in accordance with the evoked response. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.

Electro-acoustic stimulation systems that perform predetermined actions in accordance with evoked responses

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Stevenson Ranch, CA, United States of America

Charles C Finley