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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University, AU;
Inventors:
Stefan Jozef Mauger, Macleod, AU;
Zachary Mark Smith, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
Assignee:
Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/08 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/0541 (2013.01); A61N 1/36038 (2017.08);
Abstract
Presented herein are dynamic current steering techniques in which a dynamic stimulation pulse is delivered to a recipient as current stimulation applied across a plurality of stimulation channels. The current stimulation is weighted and applied in a pattern that results in a time varying progressive change in the location of a locus of the current stimulation across the plurality of channels.