US Ear Device Patents in July 2018
Telecommunications have come a long way since the days of party lines when Ernestine the operator routed calls to the right party while everyone listened in on the line. Forget about HIPAA: privacy wasn’t part of the deal. ID was by oral confirmation (“Yes, I’m the party to whom you’re speaking.”), all done while holding…
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US Ear Device Patents in June 2018
The patent list continues to lean in on ear devices that use the ear as a conveyor belt for things far beyond what audiologists used to think of as hearing “better.” They raise Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) questions about what “better” may mean as technology continues to unfolds. The following are June’s…
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US Ear Device Patents in May 2018
Sivantos/Widex Has a Lot of Clout by Any Measure The M&A of Widex and Sivantos was May’s big news in the hearing aid world. The new entity (name as yet undisclosed) is predicted take the new Denmark-Singapore headquartered entity to 29% global market share, making it the top player among major hearing aid manufacturers…
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US Ear Device Patents for April 2018
By Holly Hosford-Dunn, PhD The Big 6 –soon to be the Big 5— continued patenting hearing aid designs and technologies in April. They were joined in these efforts by South Korean and Swiss companies with challenging names that are new to Hearing Economics. We ask better-informed readers to send us what you know about these…
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US Hearing Device Patents for Q1 2018
We’re likely to see more and more cross-overs between hearing aids and wearables/hearables. … What will the next generation of hearing aids look like?” (Director of Media Relations at Sonova AG quoted in Hip hearing aids as a fashion statement? Audiology Worldnews, April 20 2018) By Holly Hosford-Dunn, PhD Marketing meets up with patents…
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