Sophono, Inc.

Aureliym Gmbh

Other

Forschungszentrum Julich Gmbh

Aurelium Gmbh

Markus C Haller

Nicholas F Pergola

Peter Ruppersberg

Todd C Wyant

Christian Hauptmann

Mark Williams

James F Kasic

Peter Alexander Tass

Niklaus Burger

Jean-Noël Fehr

Urs Anliker

Sven Grob

Sven Jürgen Grob

A hearing aid device is provided. The hearing aid device comprises: an input unit configured to receive an acoustical input and transform it into an electrical input signal; a signal transforming unit coupled to the input unit and configured to process the electrical input signal to obtain an electrical output signal; a stimulation unit configured to generate a stimulation signal for acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation therapy; an output unit configured to transform at least one of the electrical output signal and the stimulation signal into an acoustical output.

Extended bandwidth hearing aid with dynamically adjustable sampling rate for power optimized deployment of coordinated reset (CR) neuromodulation for the treatment of subjective tonal tinnitus

Described and disclosed herein are various embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods configured to deliver a two-dimensional acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation therapy to a patient's auditory cortex. A novel auditory stimulation regime is employed, where suitably configured therapeutic signals that take into account the patient's tinnitus frequency and periodicity are employed to excite areas surrounding the center of tinnitus excitation in the patient's auditory cortex.

Two-dimensional acoustic CR neuromodulation using frequency and periodicity as control parameters

A device is provide for stimulating neurons. The device includes a stimulation unit that is implantable into a patient's body and that includes multiple stimulation elements for stimulating neurons in a target area of the brain and/or spinal cord of the patient with stimuli. Moreover, the device includes a control unit that actuates the stimulation unit such that multiple groups of stimulation elements generate respective stimuli. In this aspect, each group includes multiple stimulation elements of the stimulation unit with two or more of the groups generating sequences of stimuli in a repetitive manner in a respective time pattern which includes successive cycles. Furthermore, the sequences of stimuli generated by the two or more groups differ in terms of the number of cycles in which the sequence in which the stimulation elements generate the stimuli within one sequence is constant and/or in terms of the duration of respective cycles.

Device and method for an effective invasive multi-segment neurostimulation

Described and disclosed herein are various embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods configured to employ acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation therapies that are capable of adjusting or modulating at least one of the intensity, auditory filter bandwidth, and center frequency of therapeutic stimulation signals delivered to an individual patient, where in one embodiment such signals are tuned to have intensities that are above or slightly above the individual patient's hearing threshold.

Adaptive stimulation tone adjustment for treating tinnitus in acoustic coordinated reset meuromodulation systems, devices, components and methods

Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods for reducing feedback between a transducer and one or more microphones in a magnetic bone conduction hearing device. Such systems, devices, components and methods include acoustically sealing or welding first and second compartments of the hearing device from one another, where the first compart contains the one or more microphones, and the second compart contains the transducer.

Systems, devices, components and methods for reducing feedback between microphones and transducers in bone conduction magnetic hearing devices

Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods for reducing feedback between a transducer and a microphone in a magnetic bone conduction hearing aid. Such systems, devices, components and methods include providing encapsulation compartments for the transducer and/or the microphone, and providing an acoustically-isolating housing for the microphone that is separate and apart from the main housing of the hearing aid.

Systems, devices, components and methods for providing acoustic isolation between microphones and transducers in bone conduction magnetic hearing aids

Various embodiments of systems, devices, components, and methods are disclosed for adjustable bone conduction hearing aids where a patient or health care provided can select different positions of a magnetic spacer on a patient's skull after a magnetic implant has been implanted beneath the patient's skin and affixed to the patient's skull.

Adjustable magnetic systems, devices, components and methods for bone conduction hearing aids

Disclosed are various embodiments of components and devices in a sound acquisition system for a magnetic hearing aid that include a sound acquisition device. In one embodiment, the sound acquisition device is configured to be positioned between a magnetic spacer and a magnetic implant, and to be magnetically coupled to the magnetic spacer and the magnetic implant, such that sound signals generated by an EM transducer in the hearing aid may be acquired by a sound sensor forming a portion of the sound acquisition device as the sound signals pass through the sound acquisition device into the patient's skull or a test fixture.

Sound acquisition and analysis systems, devices and components for magnetic hearing aids

Various embodiments of systems, devices, components, and methods are disclosed for mechanically coupling a bone conduction hearing aid, or a spacer or other device for a bone conduction hearing aid, to an abutment of a bone screw affixed to a patient's skull. Some embodiments of abutment attachment mechanisms employ axially-directed forces to secure a hearing aid to an abutment of a bone screw, while others employ radially directed forces to secure a hearing aid to an abutment of a bone screw.

Abutment attachment systems, mechanisms, devices, components and methods for bone conduction hearing aids

Systems devices, components and methods for providing acoustic isolation between microphones and transducers in bone conduction magnetic hearing aids

Various embodiments of systems, devices, components, and methods are disclosed for a magnetic hearing aid system comprising an implantable sound transmission device configured for implantation in a patient's skull. The sound transmission device is configured to receive acoustic signals generated by an EM transducer in a magnetic hearing aid that are transmitted through the patient's skin, and to transmit the received acoustic signals to the patient's cochlea via one or more sound-transmitting metal members. According to some embodiments, the sound transmission device is curved to permit optimal placement of the hearing aid and corresponding magnetic implant behind a patient's ear.

Implantable sound transmission device for magnetic hearing aid, and corresponding systems, devices and components

Various embodiments of systems, devices, components, and methods are disclosed for magnetic spacers configured for use in conjunction with bone conduction hearing aids and corresponding magnetic implants. According to some embodiments, the magnetic spacers are configured to vary the amount and/or orientation or direction of magnetic coupling force provided thereby.

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