Patents by Inventor Carl Van Himbeeck
Carl Van Himbeeck has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240075280Abstract: An apparatus, including an electrode, wherein the electrode is at least one of directly or indirectly fixed to an otic capsule or tissue associated with the otic capsule of a human at least in part with cured securement material, wherein the electrode is part of a human ailment treatment and/or mitigation system, at least in part implantable in the human.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Antonin RAMBAULT, Carl VAN HIMBEECK, Marcus ANDERSSON, Peter GIBSON, Nicholas Charles Kendall PAWSEY, Paul Michael CARTER
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Patent number: 11910166Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20240024677Abstract: Disclosed technology includes technology for compensating for a balance dysfunction. A system can combine sensory substitution with balance dysfunction suppression. Dysfunctional balance information coming from a recipient's vestibular system is inhibited using stimulation. Balance information (e.g., how the recipient is positioned with respect to gravity, such as rotation along pitch and roll axes) is then passed to another sensory channel (e.g., visual, audible, or tactile sensory channels). Such a system can be implemented with a cochlear implant or another sensory prostheses having balance signals injected into the stimulation signal processing path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Angel RAMOS DE MIGUEL, Carl VAN HIMBEECK, Erika Jeanne VAN BAELEN
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Patent number: 11806530Abstract: Disclosed technology includes technology for compensating for a balance dysfunction. A system can combine sensory substitution with balance dysfunction suppression. Dysfunctional balance information coming from a recipient's vestibular system is inhibited using stimulation. Balance information (e.g. how the recipient is positioned with respect to gravity, such as rotation along pitch and roll axes) is then passed to another sensory channel (e.g., visual, audible, or tactile sensory channels). Such a system can be implemented with a cochlear implant or another sensory prostheses having balance signals injected into the stimulation signal processing path.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: Cochlear Limited, University of Las Palmas de Gran CanariaInventors: Angel Ramos De Miguel, Carl Van Himbeeck, Erika Jeanne Van Baelen
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Publication number: 20230308815Abstract: Disclosed technology includes technology for compensating for a balance dysfunction. A cochlear implant or other auditory prosthesis can be modified to provide sensory substitution as perceptible auditory cues, such as by injecting balance signals into a cochlear stimulation signal processing path. Thus, while some of the sound processing path can be shared between balance signals and sound input signals (e.g., from a microphone or other sound source), some of the processing path can be exclusive to the sound input signals. Technology can combine sensory substitution with balance dysfunction suppression.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Carl VAN HIMBEECK, Erika Van Baelen
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Publication number: 20230147143Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 11627422Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 11546708Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 11388531Abstract: An active medical device, including an input receiver configured to receive a frequency-varying input signal, and a functional component that reacts to the input signal and consumes power at a rate dependant on the frequency of portions of the input signal to which the functional component reacts, wherein the active medical device is configured to adjust one or more portions of the input signal corresponding to portions of the input signal where the functional component consumes power at a rate that is greater than that of other portions of the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Werner Meskens, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20220078563Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 11202158Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20210322772Abstract: Disclosed technology includes technology for compensating for a balance dysfunction. A system can combine sensory substitution with balance dysfunction suppression. Dysfunctional balance information coming from a recipient's vestibular system is inhibited using stimulation. Balance information (e.g. how the recipient is positioned with respect to gravity, such as rotation along pitch and roll axes) is than passed to another sensory channel (e.g., visual, audible, or tactile sensory channels). Such a system can be implemented with a cochlear implant or another sensory prostheses having balance signals injected into the stimulation signal processing path.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Angel RAMOS DE MIGUEL, Carl VAN HIMBEECK, Erika Jeanne VAN BAELEN
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Publication number: 20210152955Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20210029476Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 10848883Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 10798503Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITEDInventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20200186948Abstract: An active medical device, including an input receiver configured to receive a frequency-varying input signal, and a functional component that reacts to the input signal and consumes power at a rate dependant on the frequency of portions of the input signal to which the functional component reacts, wherein the active medical device is configured to adjust one or more portions of the input signal corresponding to portions of the input signal where the functional component consumes power at a rate that is greater than that of other portions of the input signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Werner Meskens, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20200162827Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Publication number: 20190373382Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 10477331Abstract: Presented herein are low-power active bone conduction devices that comprise an actuator that is subcutaneously implanted within a recipient so as to deliver mechanical output forces to hard tissue of the recipient. The low-power active bone conduction devices include an energy recovery circuit configured to extract non-used energy from the actuator and to store the non-used energy for subsequent use by the actuator. The low-power active bone conduction devices may also include a multi-bit sigma-delta converter that operates in accordance with a scaled sigma-delta quantization threshold value to convert received signals representative of sound into actuator drive signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Werner Meskens, Wim Bervoets, Carl Van Himbeeck