Facebook patent 11202138
Hearable is a relatively new word in our vocabulary. It’s only made the title of 6 US patents since it first appeared in 7/2019. Not until this month has a patent title specified a hearable of the type we see on the market:
- Three patents aim to authenticate or detect of existing devices (Harmon, Apple and Qualcomm)
- Two Facebook patents describe tragus conduction devices (#10,531,173 & #10999668)
- Qualcomm’s #11206499 describes a Hearable device comprising integrated device and wireless functionality
Whether it’s entitled Hearable or Hearing Aid or something else with broader application, Big Tech is working the angles. This month’s patent 11202138 from Facebook is a CIC in our nomenclature (see Fig), though you might not guess it from the title: Miniature high performance MEMS piezoelectric transducer for in-ear applications
The December 2021 Patent List
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Patent Number |
Assignee |
Issued |
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Noise reduction for implantable hearing prostheses |
Cochlear Limited (Macquarie University, AU) |
12/07/2021 |
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Hearing device user communicating with a wireless communication device |
11195518 |
Sonova AG (Staefa, CH) |
12/07/2021 |
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Method and apparatus for binaural rendering audio signal using variable order filtering in frequency domain |
Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, KR), Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology Inc (Seoul, KR), Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, KR) |
12/07/2021 |
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Active noise reduction in open ear directional acoustic devices |
Bose Corporation (Framingham, MA) |
12/07/2021 |
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Visual communication of hearing aid patient-specific coded information |
Intricon Corporation (Arden Hills, MN) |
12/07/2021 |
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Configurable hearing device for use with an assistive listening system |
Starkey Laboratories Inc (Eden Prairie, MN) |
12/07/2021 |
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Power management in low power wireless link in a hearing aid system |
Oticon A/S (Smorum, DK) |
12/07/2021 |
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Hearing device with active vent comprising solenoid |
Sonova AG (Staefa, CH) |
12/07/2021 |
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Rechargeable battery with non-metallic casing for a hearing device |
Sonova AG (Staefa, CH) |
12/07/2021 |
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Interaural time difference crossfader for binaural audio rendering |
Magic Leap Inc (Plantation, FL) |
12/07/2021 |
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Miniature high performance MEMS piezoelectric transducer for in-ear applications |
Facebook Technologies LLC |
12/14/2021 |
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Alignment between charging elements of a hearing device and a charger |
GN Hearing A/S (Ballerup, DK) |
12/14/2021 |
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Low-power active bone conduction devices |
Cochlear Limited (Macquarie University, AU) |
12/14/2021 |
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Methods of self-calibrating of a hearing device and related hearing devices |
Cochlear Limited (Macquarie University, AU) |
12/14/2021 |
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Predictive head-tracked binaural audio rendering |
Apple Inc (Cupertino, CA) |
12/14/2021 |
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Hearing aid tool |
Applicant: Little, Charlie (Farmville, NC) |
12/14/2021 |
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Receiving audio from a listening device associated with a selected geographic area |
International Business Machines (Armonk, NY) |
12/21/2021 |
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Low energy deep-learning networks for generating auditory features for audio processing pipelines |
International Business Machines (Armonk, NY) |
12/21/2021 |
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Audio stream detection |
Sonova AG (Staefa, CH) |
12/21/2021 |
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Magnet array for securing wireless listening devices |
Apple Inc (Cupertino, CA) |
12/21/2021 |
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Wearable electronic device and strap arrangement with charging ports for charging ear-worn electronic devices |
Starkey Laboratories Inc (Eden Prairie, MN) |
12/21/2021 |
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Hearing assistance device that uses one or more sensors to autonomously change a power mode of the device |
Eargo Inc (Mountain View, CA) |
12/21/2021 |
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Hearing device with service mode and related method |
GN Hearing A/S (Ballerup, DK) |
12/21/2021 |
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Activating a mode of a hearing device |
Sonova AG (Staefa, CH) |
12/21/2021 |
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Hearing aid and hearing aid output voice adjustment method thereof |
Pixart Imaging Inc (Hsin-Chu County, TW) |
12/21/2021 |
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Hearable device comprising integrated device and wireless functionality |
Qualcomm Inc (San Diego, CA) |
12/21/2021 |
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Method for operating a hearing instrument and a hearing system containing a hearing instrument |
Sivantos Pte Ltd (Singapore, SG) |
12/21/2021 |
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System and method for evaluating an ear seal using normalization |
Cirrus Logic Inc (Austin, TX) |
12/21/2021 |
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Optical spectroscopy circuitry for assessing ear health |
Cactus Medical LLC (Irvine, CA) |
12/28/2021 |
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Audio enhanced hearing protection system |
Bongiovi Acoustics LLC (Port St Lucie, FL) |
12/28/2021 |
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Hearing device |
Boco Inc (Tokyo, JP) |
12/28/2021 |
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Adaptive noise cancelling of bone conducted noise in the mechanical domain |
MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH (Innsbruck, AT) |
12/28/2021 |
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Dynamic filter |
Earlens Corporation (Menlo Park, CA) |
12/28/2021 |
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Hearing device and method for operating a hearing device |
Sivantos Pte Ltd (Singapore, SG) |
12/28/2021 |
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Method for generating binaural signals from stereo signals using upmixing binauralization, and apparatus therefor |
Gaudio Lab Inc (Seoul, KR) |
12/28/2021 |
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Generating binaural audio in response to multi-channel audio using at least one feedback delay network |
Dolby Laboratory Licensing Corporation (San Francisco, CA) |
12/28/2021 |
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Hearing protection device |
Honeywell International Inc (Morris Plains, NJ) |
12/28/2021 |
Holly Hosford-Dunn, PhD, owned and operated a dispensing audiology practice in Tucson and was active in management of HearingHealthMatters.org through 2017. She holds BA degrees in Communication Sciences, Psychology and Economics; MA in Communication Disorders; PhD in Hearing Sciences. Following post-doctoral work at Max Planck Institute (Munich, DE) and Eaton-Peabody Auditory Physiology Lab (Boston), she joined the Stanford medical school faculty as director of audiology. She has authored/edited numerous text books, chapters, journals, and articles and taught Marketing and Practice Management in a variety of academic settings. She continues to consult and write on topics related to hearing health care vis-à-vis consumer demands, professional training, technological advancement, capital investment, industry consolidation, regulatory control, product and service distribution, and strategic pricing.
