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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1989
Filed:
May. 15, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary Tatge, Germantown, TN (US);
Assignee:
Richards Medical Company, Memphis, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ; H05G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1284 / ; 623 10 ;
Abstract
An ossicular replacement prosthesis containing a magnet in the head of the prosthesis so that when used with a magnetic induction hearing aid having a coil producing a magnetic field, the hearing losses resulting from insertion of the prosthesis and any other remaining hearing losses can be corrected without the difficulties associated with conventional acoustic hearing aids.