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US 2026/0192097 A1Published application
Trans middle ear-inner ear fluid flow implementations
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsKenneth OPLINGER, Tommy BERGS, Sören NILSSON
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Abstract
A prosthesis including a device configured to deliver a therapeutic substance from outside a cochlea to inside the cochlea and configured to evoke a mechanically based hearing percept. In an exemplary embodiment, the device is configured to drive fluid into and out of the cochlea, thereby evoking a hearing percept.
Claims29
A system, comprising:
- a drug delivery sub-system configured to deliver drug to a cochlea of a recipient;
- and
- an energy delivery sub-system configured to evoke a hearing percept via fluid flow generation, wherein
- the drug delivery sub-system and the energy delivery sub-system are configured to access the cochlea at a common location.
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A method, comprising:
- treating a cochlea for an ailment, the ailment having a deleterious effect on a recipient's hearing, the treatment being a treatment to at least one of at least partially remediate, stabilize or at least slow a hearing impairment of the recipient, wherein the recipient has at least some residual hearing;
- and
- subsequent to the action of treating the cochlea, operating a hearing prosthesis configured to mechanically stimulate the cochlea to evoke a hearing percept.
A device, comprising:
- a hydraulic hearing prosthesis configured to move a fluid into and out of a cochlea to evoke a hearing percept.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.