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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:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yitzhak Zilberman, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Joseph H. Schulman, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 ;
Abstract
A system for enhancing hearing comprised of both a middle ear implant and a cochlear implant. The system directs signals relating to lower frequency sound to the middle ear implant and signals relating to higher frequency sound to the cochlear implant. The middle ear implant comprises an electrically driven actuator, e.g., a speaker, for vibrating the middle ear ossicles via air conducted sound energy or a mechanical transducer for physically contacting and mechanically vibrating the ossicles. The cochlear implant includes electrodes preferably implanted at a shallow level at the basal end of the cochlea.