Hearing Economics

Listening is hard and earbuds can be uncomfortable. Sometimes you just need a break, which is what Angela Murphy’s patent #US 12408777 B2 (Earbud accomodating pillow device) aims to afford device wearers. The September 2025 patent list Description Patent Number Assignee or Applicant Issued Wearable earpiece oxygen monitor 12402844 Oxiwear Inc (Arlington, VA) 9/02/2025 Electronic collaboration and communication method and

What you see is what you hear Norwegian company TK&H Holding AS has a beam-forming based hearing aid system integrated into glasses frames, described in patent #12389167. Besides describing its own patent idea, the patent gives a clear and concise description of prior art in the field. That historical review is welcome to bystanders witnessing the many eyeglass hearing aids

Alango Technologies is an innovative Israeli company specializing in advanced digital signal processing across applications for voice, hearing, and audio. Alango Founder and CEO Alexander Goldin maintain a relatively high profile in the hearing/audio fields via frequent LinkedIn posts and non-stop participation in tech exhibitions (CES 2025, ISE 2025, GAS 2025, with IAA Mobility Summit and Dubai World Congress later

Hearing glasses ideas are everywhere, including these new patents examples: Merry Electronics (Shenzhen)’s patent #12332506 for Wearable device and earbud Sony Group’s patent #12334076 entitled Selective speech-to-text for deaf or severely hearing impaired The patent list for June 2025 Description Patent Number Assignee or Applicant Issued Sound delivery apparatuses for audiometric measurements 12318194 Advanced Bionics AG (Staefa, CH) 6/03/2025 Implantable

Starkey’s patent # 12302084, Hearing device with multiple neural networks for sound enhancement, discusses the use of simplified Deep Noise Network (DNN) models to enhance not only the user’s perception of speech, but also specialty applications to enhance any type of sound whose signals can be characterized, such as music, animal noises (e.g., bird calls), machine noises, pure or mixed

Starkey’s patent #12273683 (Self-fit hearing instruments with self-reported measures of hearing loss and listening) aims to implement intuitive strategies for self-fitting OTCs and other ear devices. It describes direct or indirect mapping of an audiogram from responses to a questionnaire of hearing loss and listening perception (e.g., BHI Quick Hearing Check ). The derived audiogram is then used to perform

Samsung’s patent #12251292 is  au courant with merging hearing aid and hearables technologies. Entitled Multi-device integration with hearable for managing hearing disorders, the device describes implementations which include generating an audiogram, noise cancellation, [and] hearing enhancement. The March 2025 patent list Description Patent Number Assignee Issued Hearing assistance device housing for improved biometric sensing 12239461 Starkey Laboratories Inc (Eden Prairie, MN)

Auditory assistance systems are under-utilized, as Norphonic AS  patent #12190717 (Auditory guidance method and system) points out. Their patent aims to help people get around without getting lost or bumping into things, especially in fraught situations. As the patent puts it: … people navigate in long corridors rely heavily on visual aids such as signs, arrows, and markings on the

Norphonic AS has a patent (#12190717 ) entitled Auditory guidance method and system which is designed to help in high-risk situations such as fires in confined spaces. But if it’s implemented in airports, it will help everyone everyday! Currently, information helping people navigate in long corridors rely heavily on visual aids such as signs, arrows, and markings on the floor.

Beijing Friendship Hospital and Capital Medical University (Beijing, CN) US 12183002 B2 (Hearing state prediction apparatus and method based on diffusion tensor) proposes to map brain white matter microstructure and corresponding hearing state of a subject thereby disclosing the relationship between hearing disorder and brain microstructure change.  The December 2024 patent list Description Patent Number Assignee Issued Array insertion tool