E04B 1/99
Room acoustics, i.e. forms of, or arrangements in, rooms for influencing or
Official title: Room acoustics, i.e. forms of, or arrangements in, rooms for influencing or directing sound (E04B1/82 takes precedence; acoustics in general G10K11/00; electric signal processing for producing a reverberation or echo sound G10K15/08)
E04B1/99 (Room acoustics, i.e. forms of, or arrangements in, rooms for influencing or) appears on 130 US grants and 119 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E04B- Granted patents
- 130
- Published applications
- 119
- Assignees
- 80
- Inventors
- 265
- Latest grant
- 28 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus and system for dynamic high NRC acoustic locking wall tile and methods thereof28 Oct 2025US 12,456,446 B2Turf Design, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing acoustical elements9 Sep 2025US 12,409,584 B2Saint-Gobain Ecophon AB
- Apparatus and system for acoustic curved ceiling baffle and methods of manufacturing thereof17 Jun 2025US 12,331,511 B2
- Sound damping wallboard and method of constructing a sound damping wallboard8 Apr 2025US 12,270,207 B2Gold Bond Building Products, LLC
- Asymmetrical building surface baffles and building surface system25 Mar 2025US 12,258,752 B2CertainTeed Ceilings Corporation
- Variable acoustic covering system for boundaries of a room1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297935 A1
- Acoustic structures28 May 2026US 2026/0148724 A1Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
- Apparatus and system for dynamic high nrc acoustic locking wall tile and methods thereof23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112350 A1Turf Design, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing acoustic panels19 Mar 2026US 2026/0077531 A1Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
- Apparatus and system for acoustic curved ceiling baffle and methods of manufacturing thereof2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305280 A1Turf Design, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Acoustical virtual environment66US 5,525,765 AWenger Corporation · 1996
- Three-dimensional acoustic ceiling tile system for dispersing long wave sound61US 4,393,631 A1983
- Method of improving the acoustics of a hall61US 4,593,404 A1986
- Support system for sound absorbing panels49US 4,227,355 AUnited States Gypsum Company · 1980
- Planar binary amplitude diffusor44US 5,817,992 ARPG Diffusor Systems, Inc. · 1998