A61B 5/121
Evaluating hearing capacity
Official title: {evaluating hearing capacity}
A61B5/121 (Evaluating hearing capacity) appears on 760 US grants and 1,038 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 760
- Published applications
- 1,038
- Assignees
- 472
- Inventors
- 1,719
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 38 | 49 |
| 2026 | 41 | 55 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Scoring speech audiometry29 Sep 2026US 12,745,928 B2Cochlear Limited
- Customized audio modification tool29 Sep 2026US 12,750,619 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Predicting real-ear-to-coupler differences based on clinical immittance measures of the middle ear8 Sep 2026US 12,732,761 B2Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
- Control systems and methods for remote audiologists1 Sep 2026US 12,725,703 B2Globalmed Holdings, LLC
- Hearing sensitivity acquisition methods and devices1 Sep 2026US 12,726,752 B2The Diablo Canyon Collective LLC
- Occlusion device capable of occluding an ear canal8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306301 A1ST Portfolio Holdings, LLC
- Predictive medical device consultation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311857 A1Cochlear Limited
- Novel dynamic hearing restoration device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294283 A1Melisono AB
- Novel hearing test system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294284 A1Melisono AB
- An ear probe for ear examination24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283457 A1Otos Health Oy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Headset hearing tester and hearing aid programmer197US 5,197,332 ACalMed Technology, Inc. · 1993
- Portable hearing-related analysis system175US 6,366,863 B1Micro Ear Technology, Inc. · 2002
- Portable tone generator for producing pre-calibrated tones172US 8,831,244 B2Audiotoniq, Inc. · 2014
- Method and apparatus for picking up auditory evoked potentials147US 6,428,484 B12002
- Spatialization for hearing evaluation116US 5,825,894 ADecibel Instruments, Inc. · 1998