A61B 5/126
Measuring compliance or mechanical impedance of the tympanic membrane
Official title: {measuring compliance or mechanical impedance of the tympanic membrane}
A61B5/126 (Measuring compliance or mechanical impedance of the tympanic membrane) appears on 60 US grants and 89 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 60
- Published applications
- 89
- Assignees
- 47
- Inventors
- 153
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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
- System for in vivo measurements of tympanic membrane vibration23 Jun 2026US 12,661,033 B2Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
- Measuring presbycusis23 Jun 2026US 12,661,034 B2Cochlear Limited
- An ear probe for ear examination24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283457 A1Otos Health Oy
- Automatic pressure control system and method of hyperbaric oxygen chamber for detecting pressure equalization between external ear and middle ear11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157903 A1IBEX MEDICAL SYSTEMS Co., Ltd.
- Ethod for multi-level tonal adaptive scanning in an extended range of sound frequencies12 Feb 2026US 2026/0041335 A1Hearing Rehabilitation Center "Melfon", Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for characterization of acute otitis media17 Jul 2025US 2025/0228522 A1OtoNexus Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Apparatus and method for measuring clinical-audiometric parameters13 Mar 2025US 2025/0082233 A1Neuranix S.R.L.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Portable hand-held tympanometer54US 4,688,582 AWelch Allyn, Inc. · 1987
- Hearing faculty testing and apparatus therefor34US 4,374,526 ANational Research Development Corporation · 1983
- Closed sound delivery system30US 4,251,686 A1981
- Ear ailment diagnostic device and method23US 8,858,430 B2Zipline Health, Inc. · 2014
- Apparatus and method for characterization of acute otitis media10US 10,660,604 B2OtoNexus Medical Technologies, Inc. · 2020