Category: Sony

Patents Jul/Aug 2016: Game of Patent Thrones

Holly Hosford-Dunn 3 Comments Audiology / Big 6 / GN Resound / Hearing aids / Oticon / Phonak / Qualcomm / Samsung Electronics Co. / Sivantos / Sonova / Sony / Starkey / United States Office of Patent & Trademark Office / US Patents / USPTO / Widex

Patents, a fantastical realm of imagination, are a wonderful place to explore and gain understanding of new concepts. What better place to stumble on new definitions than in newly-issued patents from  companies in the brain realm?  What better place to implement new concepts than the ear? (editor’s note:  This post was updated 9/11/2016 to correct…

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Tech Giants Eye Hearing Device Industry as Target for Rape and Plunder

Holly Hosford-Dunn 1 Comment Apple / Audio Devices / Audiology / Augmented Reality (AR) / Consumer electronics / Elwha LLC / Hearables / Hearing Aid Manufacturers / Hearing Aid Patents / Hearing aids / Intellectual Ventures (IV) / Market Power / MFi / Nick Hunn / opaque and transparent hearing / Patent Activity Entity (PAE) / RIC / Samsung Electronics Co. / Santa Fe Science and Technology / Sector 44-Retail Trade / Sony / US Patents / Utility / Zugara

The last post described future ear-level devices as conduits for highly personalized, exquisitely targeted, near and far-field individual communication systems that work in real time.  Such a vision combines past and ongoing R&D efforts in Hearables, Hearing Aids, and Augmented Reality (AR).  As the media hypes it, these will not be your grandfather’s hearing aids…

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