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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2014
Advanced Bionics Ag, Staefa, CH;
Kanthaiah Koka, Valencia, CA (US);
Leonid M. Litvak, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abhijit Kulkarni, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Advanced Bionics AG, Staefa, CH;
Abstract
An exemplary fitting system 1) directs an EAS system to concurrently apply acoustic stimulation to a patient by way of a loudspeaker and electrical stimulation to the patient by way of an electrode located within a cochlea of the patient, 2) determines an interactive effect that the electrical stimulation has on the acoustic stimulation, 3) directs, if the fitting facility determines that the interactive effect is suppressive, the EAS system to use a first stimulation strategy that steers a current field produced by stimulation of the electrode away from intracochlear acoustic responders within the patient that are associated with the acoustic stimulation, and 4) directs, if the fitting facility does not determine that the interactive effect is suppressive, the EAS system to use a second stimulation strategy that steers the current field produced by the stimulation of the electrode towards the intracochlear acoustic responders.