US Ear Device Patents in April 2019
Get Down with Your Music and Up With Your Gym Game Patent #10264339 aims to give ear device and hearing aid wearers “the feel of the sound similar to music being played at a night club, a concert, or when being played by a loud stereo,” and “wirelessly communicate with an additional device.” This…
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US Hearing Device Patents for May 2017
Made for iPhone hearing aids came first and most smart hearing aids are still not “made” for android devices. The Internet of things reachable by hearing aids is limited to a small, picky universe. In the larger universe, my android phone and Samsung washing machine may be having lively discourse, but I’m not privy…
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US Hearing Device Patents for April 2017
Audiologists and hearing scientists are familiar with human equal loudness contours (feature image above). Samsung is too, using those contours in its patent #9635459 to control signal input gain to protect against noise induced hearing loss. Samsung Exits the Ear to Aid Hearing Or, better yet, why not fully protect the ear and hearing…
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Dominance in a Patent Class
Charting patent trends can track technological innovation and stagnation by proxy variables such as geography (countries, metropolitan areas), industry concentration, education (proximity of universities, proportion of PhDs), income per capita, etc. One measure is growth and dominance of patent classes by an industry or company. Of interest to the hearing aid industry is its representation…
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Emily Blunt Calling, Courtesy of Samsung
Samsung phone and washer technologies exploded in 2016, but and not in a good way. Thankfully, those technologies didn’t show up in hearing aids because Samsung has yet to enter the FDA-approved US hearing aid market, despite strong expectations that it would do so in 2016. That hasn’t stopped Samsung from its end run…
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