A61B 5/125
Objective methods
Official title: {objective methods}
A61B5/125 (Objective methods) appears on 237 US grants and 368 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 237
- Published applications
- 368
- Assignees
- 174
- Inventors
- 656
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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
- Electrophysiological device and method for diagnosis of acute unilateral otitis media (AOM)18 Aug 2026US 12,708,317 B2Ichilov Tech Ltd.
- Method of fitting a hearing device and fitting device for fitting the hearing device11 Aug 2026US 12,702,330 B2Sivantos Pte.Ltd
- Audio equalization metadata11 Aug 2026US 12,707,220 B2Nura Holdings Pty Ltd
- Neurological examination system28 Jul 2026US 12,690,808 B1RemNeuro, L.L.C.
- Occlusion device capable of occluding an ear canal8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306301 A1ST Portfolio Holdings, LLC
- An ear probe for ear examination24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283457 A1Otos Health Oy
- Predictive techniques for sensory aids24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292421 A1Cochlear Limited
- System and Method for Generating an Audiogram and Application Thereof to Personalise Frequency Response in a User Device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256385 A1Bergen Audio Innovation
- Multimodal ultrasound and acoustic system and method for novel non-invasive hearing assessment and intracranial pressure monitoring20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240456 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for evaluating inner ear hearing loss81US 5,776,179 AUniversity of Michigan · 1998
- Portable hand-held tympanometer54US 4,688,582 AWelch Allyn, Inc. · 1987
- Evoked response audiometer48US 4,462,411 AThe University of Melbourne · 1984
- Hearing faculty testing and apparatus therefor34US 4,374,526 ANational Research Development Corporation · 1983
- Systems, methods and products for diagnostic hearing assessments distributed via the use of a computer network33US 7,854,704 B2East Carolina University · 2010