G10K 2210/1081
Earphones
Official title: Earphones, e.g. for telephones, ear protectors or headsets
G10K2210/1081 (Earphones) appears on 1,127 US grants and 1,296 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10K- Granted patents
- 1,127
- Published applications
- 1,296
- Assignees
- 370
- Inventors
- 1,853
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 103 | 110 |
| 2026 | 60 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Open wearable acoustic device and active noise reduction method6 Oct 2026US 12,755,727 B2Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- Headset device with speakers, signal processing method and analysis system thereof29 Sep 2026US 12,749,473 B2Luxshare Precision Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd
- Noise reduction adjusting method, earphone and computer-readable storage medium8 Sep 2026US 12,732,740 B2Goertek Technology Co., Ltd.
- Robust active noise cancelling at the eardrum1 Sep 2026US 12,725,599 B2Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Reducing occlusion effect in wearable audio devices18 Aug 2026US 12,711,938 B2Bose Corporation
- Noise reduction earphone and earphone noise reduction method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311673 A1Shenzhen Dancing Future Technology Ltd.
- Noise-cancelling headphone device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290301 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
- Method for real-time adaptive active noise control, and adaptive active noise control earphones3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260643 A1Bestechnic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- An open-air noise cancellation system and a method to operate the same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253570 A1
- Real-time transfer function estimation for wearable audio devices27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255096 A1Bose Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Auditory prosthesis, noise suppression apparatus and feedback suppression apparatus having focused adaptive filtering254US 5,402,496 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1995
- Variable gain active noise canceling system with improved residual noise sensing249US 6,118,878 ANoise Cancellation Technologies, Inc. · 2000
- Telemetric apparatus for health and environmental monitoring222US 8,652,040 B2Valencell, Inc. · 2014
- Noise cancellation earpiece216US 6,445,799 B1GN ReSound North America Corporation · 2002
- Active plus selective headset162US 5,815,582 ANoise Cancellation Technologies, Inc. · 1998