US Ear Device Patents for February 2021
GN Hearing’s two distinct lines of business have long covered diverse hearing needs, ranging from medical devices for hearing loss to head-worn devices for communications and streaming. Its newly proposed device (Fig 1, right) may like a molar tooth but GN remains firmly situated in the ear (#114 in the illustration). True to its history…
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US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 5 – The Markup Ratio
The series on hearing aid pricing began in fall 2020 with a look at average nominal (Part 1) and inflation-adjusted (Part 2) wholesale costs. As we moved into 2021, readers were presented with findings for the average nominal (Part 3) and inflation-adjusted (Part 4) retail costs. In the fifth, and final, installment of this series,…
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US Ear Device Patents for January 2021
Use a 9 Iron and Watch for Innocent Bystanders Added features keep popping up on Hearables, as expected, but they’re also showing up in clever ways on hearing aids, targeting specific and general needs of wearers. Here are two fun forays in that direction from this month’s patent list: Starkey’s 10894194 for an Ear-wearable…
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US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 4 – Inflation-Adjusted Retail-Side Trends
In our series on hearing aid pricing, readers have been provided with data on average nominal (Part 1) and inflation-adjusted (Part 2) wholesale hearing aid price, and, more recently, with average nominal retail hearing aid pricing (Part 3). In the fourth installment of this series, the reader is presented with a comparison between unadjusted and…
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US Ear Device Patents for December 2020
Here’s Listening to You, Dear Those of us who sing in the shower. play air guitar or practice our dance moves in the all together may want to hit pause when donning hearables of the future. No one says it better than PCMS Holdings’s patent #10860645, Systems and methods for creation of a listening log…
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