US 12,070,596 B2
Prosthesis management of body physiology
Daniel Smyth, Macquarie University (AU)
Assigned to Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Appl. No. 16/982,713
Filed by COCHLEAR LIMITED, New South Wales (AU)
PCT Filed Mar. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/052225
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/180614, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/645,455, filed on Mar. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0001113 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61M 5/172 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/0541 (2013.01) [A61M 5/1723 (2013.01); A61N 1/36038 (2017.08); A61M 2005/1726 (2013.01); A61M 2205/054 (2013.01); A61M 2210/0662 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring a physical phenomenon inside a cochlea of a recipient; and
managing a blood labyrinth barrier of the recipient based on the monitored physical phenomenon, wherein
the action of managing the blood labyrinth barrier is executed by applying electrical stimulation from a cochlear implant electrode array located in the cochlea of the recipient.