Abstract: A device for securing a catheter inserted into an incision or orifice of a patient is described. The device includes a module with bore into which the catheter can be inserted. Semirigid tethers connected to the module and to the patient prevent movement of the catheter relative to its position in the incision or orifice.

Abstract: A wearable for capturing self-voice using a mixed sensor array, including a microphone generating a microphone signal and positioned to capture a user's voice; an accelerometer generating an accelerometer signal and positioned to capture the user's voice; and a controller receiving the microphone signal and the accelerometer signal and configured to generate a mixed output signal, wherein the mixed output signal comprises a microphone signal component and an accelerometer signal component, wherein a ratio of the microphone signal component and the accelerometer signal component is related to a value of a noise metric representing a magnitude of ambient noise.

Abstract: A wearable for capturing self-voice using a mixed sensor array, including a microphone generating a microphone signal and positioned to capture a user's voice; an accelerometer generating an accelerometer signal and positioned to capture the user's voice; and a controller receiving the microphone signal and the accelerometer signal and configured to generate a mixed output signal, wherein the mixed output signal comprises a microphone signal component and an accelerometer signal component, wherein a ratio of the microphone signal component and the accelerometer signal component is related to a value of a noise metric representing a magnitude of ambient noise.

Abstract: A conversation assistance system with a bi-lateral array of microphones arranged externally of a space that does not include any array microphones, where the space has a left side, a right side, a front and a back, the array comprising a left side sub-array of multiple microphones and a right side sub-array of multiple microphones, where each microphone has a microphone output signal, and a processor that creates from the microphone output signals a left-ear audio signal and a right-ear audio signal. The left-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array and the right-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array.

Abstract: A conversation assistance system with a bi-lateral array of microphones arranged externally of a space that does not include any array microphones, where the space has a left side, a right side, a front and a back, the array comprising a left side sub-array of multiple microphones and a right side sub-array of multiple microphones, where each microphone has a microphone output signal, and a processor that creates from the microphone output signals a left-ear audio signal and a right-ear audio signal. The left-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array and the right-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array.