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Muhammad Chishti

Eric E Kuo

Amir Abolfathi

Ross J Miller

Peter G Knopp

Vahid Saadat

Christopher J Ullrich

Huafeng Wen

Stephen D Rank

Satvir Singh Bhatia

Jean Francois Dionne

H Robert Vandenberg

Bao Quoc Tran

Phi A Nguyen

Michael Froix

Thuan Thien Nguyen

Duy Bui

Ali Modarres

Ray F Stewart

Steven P Bitler

Valentine Y Yoon

Natarajan Balachander

Simon Stertzer

Hugues Antoine Oliver

Andrew C Beers

Robert Eugene Tricca

Sean Curry

Robert Eury

Ed Roschak

Sheldon Baumrind

Linh A Dinh

Jae H Anh

Chunhua Li

Jennifer C Chen

Benjamin Ming Wu

Irina D Pomerantseva

Hugues-Antoine Oliver

Irina Pomerantseva

Brian K Asselin

Jae Hyun Ahn

H Robert Van Den Berg

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

The disclosure relates to systems and methods of providing haptic feedback based on media content and one or more external parameters used to customize the haptic feedback. The system may modify or otherwise alter haptic feedback that is determined using the media content alone. In other words, the system may use both the media content and the external parameters to determine haptic feedback that should be output to the user or others. The external parameters may include, for example, sensor information, customization information, and/or other external parameters that may be used to customize the haptic feedback.

Method and apparatus to provide haptic feedback based on media content and one or more external parameters

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

A method includes receiving digital content data including audio data and/or video data, generating haptic data using at least some of the received digital content data, encoding the haptic data for efficient transmission over a communication network, multiplexing the encoded haptic data with the received digital content data, embedding information for decoding the encoded haptic data in metadata of the multiplexed data stream, and sending the multiplexed data stream over the communication network. The method may include analyzing the haptic data to determine at least one characteristic of the haptic data, and the encoding the haptic data may include encoding, based on the determined characteristic, the haptic data to meet a pre-defined criteria.

Method and system for haptic data encoding and streaming using a multiplexed data stream

Systems and methods are disclosed for body augmentation by mixing hyaluronic acid (HA) with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) to form an HA-PVA hydrogel; and exposing the HA-PVA hydrogel to one or more freeze-thaw cycles or to an amount of radiation effective to crosslink the HA to the PVA to crosslink the HA to the PVA.

Body augmentation device

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.

The present invention provides improved devices, systems and methods for repositioning teeth from an initial tooth arrangement to a final tooth arrangement. Repositioning is accomplished with a system comprising a series of polymeric shell appliances configured to receive the teeth and incrementally reposition individual teeth in a series of successive steps. The individual appliances may be formed from layers having different stiffnesses (elastic moduluses), and the stiffnesses of successive appliances may be different, or both.

Systems and methods for varying elastic modulus appliances

Systems and methods are disclosed for cosmetic augmentation by forming a biocompatible cross-linked polymer having a multi-phase mixture with a time release catalyst; injecting the mixture into a patient as a viscous fluid; after injection, activating the catalyst to cross-link the polymer after a predetermined period after injection into a patient; and augmenting soft tissue with the biocompatible cross-linked polymer.

Timing controlled in-situ cross-linking of halyuronic acid during injection

Systems and methods are disclosed to protect a medical device from scarring a body after implanting the device in the body by creating a bonding matrix on a surface of the device; exposing the surface to hyaluronic acid (HA) or polyethylene glycol (PEG); cross linking the HA or PEG; and preventing capsular contracture after implanting the device in the body.

Systems and methods for reducing scarring

Systems and methods are disclosed for filler injection. The apparatus includes a processor; a body sensor to provide body patient data to the processor; and an injector to inject a filler into a patient.

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