G09B 21/009
Teaching or communicating with deaf persons
Official title: {Teaching or communicating with deaf persons (G09B21/04 takes precedence)}
G09B21/009 (Teaching or communicating with deaf persons) appears on 446 US grants and 501 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G09B- Granted patents
- 446
- Published applications
- 501
- Assignees
- 267
- Inventors
- 1,201
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 30 | 45 |
| 2025 | 28 | 38 |
| 2026 | 15 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Sign language interpreter view within a communication session25 Aug 2026US 12,720,147 B1Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Steerable camera for AR hand tracking18 Aug 2026US 12,710,828 B2Snap Inc.
- Accessible audio intent visualization for interactive environments11 Aug 2026US 12,705,015 B2Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Augmented reality speech-to-text captioning4 Aug 2026US 12,700,330 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Real-time gesture recognition method and apparatus28 Jul 2026US 12,694,664 B2Avodah, Inc.
- Systems and methods for providing haptic feedback to dhh persons8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306940 A1Morat Gaming LLC
- Augmented reality speech-to-text captioning1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301602 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- System3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260579 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- Method and device for automatically generating sign language27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253511 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- System27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253600 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method, medium, and system for online ordering using sign language301US 9,230,160 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Method and apparatus for sound responsive tactile stimulation of deaf individuals295US 5,035,242 A1991
- Mass production auditory canal hearing aid274US 4,870,688 A1989
- Warning device programmable to be sensitive to preselected sound frequencies261US 5,651,070 A1997
- Intracochlear electrode array260US 4,819,647 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1989