Patents by Inventor Mark Alan Von Huben
Mark Alan Von Huben 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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Patent number: 11918808Abstract: An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from one another upon initial rotation of the magnet relative to the body when the magnet is subjected to an externally generated magnetic field, thereby limiting rotation of the magnet beyond the initial rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Charles Roger Aaron Leigh, Grahame Michael David Walling, Mark Alan Von Huben, James Vandyke, Nam Long Tuong
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Publication number: 20230336932Abstract: An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implantable magnet to hold the external portion against the skin. Magnetic force generated by the stray field of these magnets can disturb the operation of a vibrating element of the auditory prosthesis. The technologies described herein utilize additional magnets disposed within portions of the auditory prosthesis to redirect the magnetic flux, which allows the vibrating element to be disposed more closely to the magnets, reducing the overall height profile of the prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Patrik KENNES, Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Paul Michael CARTER, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, Jonathan DIOLASO, Scott Matthew IBBOTSON, Irene Tsimos DIOLASO
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Patent number: 11792586Abstract: An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implantable magnet to hold the external portion against the skin. Magnetic force generated by the stray field of these magnets can disturb the operation of a vibrating element of the auditory prosthesis. The technologies described herein utilize additional magnets disposed within portions of the auditory prosthesis to redirect the magnetic flux, which allows the vibrating element to be disposed more closely to the magnets, reducing the overall height profile of the prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Patrik Kennes, Charles Roger Aaron Leigh, Paul Michael Carter, Mark Alan Von Huben, Jonathan Diolaso, Scott Matthew Ibbotson, Irene Tsimos Diolaso
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Publication number: 20230106375Abstract: An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implantable magnet to hold the external portion against the skin. Magnetic force generated by the stray field of these magnets can disturb the operation of a vibrating element of the auditory prosthesis. The technologies described herein utilize additional magnets disposed within portions of the auditory prosthesis to redirect the magnetic flux, which allows the vibrating element to be disposed more closely to the magnets, reducing the overall height profile of the prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Patrik KENNES, Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Paul Michael CARTER, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, Jonathan DIOLASO, Scott Matthew IBBOTSON, Irene Tsimos DIOLASO
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Publication number: 20230089429Abstract: An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from one another upon initial rotation of the magnet relative to the body when the magnet is subjected to an externally generated magnetic field, thereby limiting rotation of the magnet beyond the initial rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Grahame Michael David WALLING, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, James VANDYKE, Nam Long TUONG
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Patent number: 11266844Abstract: A feedthrough for a cochlear implant or other medical device can include contacts disposed on an outer perimeter thereof. By disposing the contacts on the perimeter, the number of contacts on the feedthrough can be increased, the size of the feedthrough reduced, or both.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventor: Mark Alan von Huben
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Publication number: 20220040481Abstract: An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from one another upon initial rotation of the magnet relative to the body when the magnet is subjected to an externally generated magnetic field, thereby limiting rotation of the magnet beyond the initial rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Grahame Michael David WALLING, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, James VANDYKE, Nam Long TUONG
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Publication number: 20220032048Abstract: A method, including subjecting a subcutaneous medical device containing a first magnet to a magnetic field of an MRI machine, thereby imparting a torque onto the first magnet and resisting the imparted torque via an external device that includes a second magnet, wherein the second magnet is movable relative to another component of the external deviceType: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventor: Mark Alan VON HUBEN
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Patent number: 11154711Abstract: An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from one another upon initial rotation of the magnet relative to the body when the magnet is subjected to an externally generated magnetic field, thereby limiting rotation of the magnet beyond the initial rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Charles Roger Aaron Leigh, Grahame Michael David Walling, Mark Alan Von Huben, James Vandyke, Nam Long Tuong
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Publication number: 20210235209Abstract: An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implantable magnet to hold the external portion against the skin. Magnetic force generated by the stray field of these magnets can disturb the operation of a vibrating element of the auditory prosthesis. The technologies described herein utilize additional magnets disposed within portions of the auditory prosthesis to redirect the magnetic flux, which allows the vibrating element to be disposed more closely to the magnets, reducing the overall height profile of the prosthesis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Patrik KENNES, Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Paul Michael CARTER, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, Jonathan DIOLASO, Scott Matthew IBBOTSON, Irene Tsimos DIOLASO
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Patent number: 10917730Abstract: An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implantable magnet to hold the external portion against the skin. Magnetic force generated by the stray field of these magnets can disturb the operation of a vibrating element of the auditory prosthesis. The technologies described herein utilize additional magnets disposed within portions of the auditory prosthesis to redirect the magnetic flux, which allows the vibrating element to be disposed more closely to the magnets, reducing the overall height profile of the prosthesis.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Patrik Kennes, Charles Roger Aaron Leigh, Paul Michael Carter, Mark Alan Von Huben, Jonathan Diolaso, Scott Matthew Ibbotson, Irene Tsimos Diolaso
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Publication number: 20200147399Abstract: A feedthrough for a cochlear implant or other medical device can include contacts disposed on an outer perimeter thereof. By disposing the contacts on the perimeter, the number of contacts on the feedthrough can be increased, the size of the feedthrough reduced, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: Cochlear LimitedInventor: Mark Alan von Huben
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Patent number: 10556115Abstract: A feedthrough for a cochlear implant or other medical device can include contacts disposed on an outer perimeter thereof. By disposing the contacts on the perimeter, the number of contacts on the feedthrough can be increased, the size of the feedthrough reduced, or both.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITEDInventor: Mark Alan von Huben
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Publication number: 20190151653Abstract: An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from one another upon initial rotation of the magnet relative to the body when the magnet is subjected to an externally generated magnetic field, thereby limiting rotation of the magnet beyond the initial rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Charles Roger Aaron LEIGH, Grahame Michael David WALLING, Mark Alan VON HUBEN, James VANDYKE, Nam Long TUONG
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Patent number: 10284968Abstract: A hearing prosthesis, including an implantable microphone, and a sound management system, wherein the hearing prosthesis is configured to set an operational parameter of the sound management system based on input from a microphone external to the recipient of the implantable microphone.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Bastiaan Van Dijk, Wilson Kun Hao Fung, Mark Alan Von Huben
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Patent number: 10225666Abstract: A hearing prosthesis, including an implantable microphone, and a sound management system, wherein the hearing prosthesis is configured to set an operational parameter of the sound management system based on input from a microphone external to the recipient of the implantable microphone.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Bastiaan Van Dijk, Wilson Kun Hao Fung, Mark Alan Von Huben
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Patent number: 10130807Abstract: An implantable medical device, including a magnet and a body encompassing the magnet, wherein the implantable medical device includes structural components in the body configured to move away from one another upon initial rotation of the magnet relative to the body when the magnet is subjected to an externally generated magnetic field, thereby limiting rotation of the magnet beyond the initial rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Charles Roger Aaron Leigh, Grahame Michael David Walling, Mark Alan Von Huben, James Vandyke, Nam Long Tuong
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Patent number: 9950163Abstract: Disclosed herein are example configurations of implantable units of implantable medical devices such as hearing devices. An example implantable hearing device includes a housing having a posterior side and an anterior side, with the anterior side being formed such that an inner edge of the anterior side defines an aperture. The housing includes an electrical feedthrough, a transceiver, and an antenna element. The electrical feedthrough is made of one or more biocompatible materials, and at least a portion of the electrical feedthrough is positioned beneath the aperture. The transceiver is configured to conduct RF communications. Further, the antenna element is electrically connected to the transceiver and is positioned below, above, or inside the electrical feedthrough.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Cochler LimitedInventors: Werner Meskens, Mark Alan von Huben
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Publication number: 20170216605Abstract: A feedthrough for a cochlear implant or other medical device can include contacts disposed on an outer perimeter thereof. By disposing the contacts on the perimeter, the number of contacts on the feedthrough can be increased, the size of the feedthrough reduced, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventor: Mark Alan von Huben
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Publication number: 20170056656Abstract: Disclosed herein are example configurations of implantable units of implantable medical devices such as hearing devices. An example implantable hearing device includes a housing having a posterior side and an anterior side, with the anterior side being formed such that an inner edge of the anterior side defines an aperture. The housing includes an electrical feedthrough, a transceiver, and an antenna element. The electrical feedthrough is made of one or more biocompatible materials, and at least a portion of the electrical feedthrough is positioned beneath the aperture. The transceiver is configured to conduct RF communications. Further, the antenna element is electrically connected to the transceiver and is positioned below, above, or inside the electrical feedthrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Werner Meskens, Mark Alan von Huben