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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2021
Applicant:
Advanced Bionics Ag, Staefa, CH;
Inventors:
Andreas Benedikt Brehm, Houston, TX (US);
Markus Trautner, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
James George Elcoate Smith, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Bionics AG, Staefa, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/372 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36038 (2017.08); A61N 1/37211 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cochlear implant headpiece, for use with a cochlear implant, including a housing, a diametrically magnetized headpiece magnet, defining an axis and a N-S direction, within the housing and rotatable about the axis, whereby the N-S direction of the headpiece magnet self-aligns with the gravitational direction when the axis is perpendicular to the gravitational direction, and a headpiece antenna associated with the housing.