H04M 1/2474
Telephone terminals specially adapted for disabled people
Official title: {Telephone terminals specially adapted for disabled people (user interfaces for cordless or mobile telephones specially adapted for disabled users H04M1/72475; network based special services or facilities for hearing-impaired persons H04M3/42391; devices for conversing with the deaf-blind G09B21/04)}
H04M1/2474 (Telephone terminals specially adapted for disabled people) appears on 278 US grants and 262 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 278
- Published applications
- 262
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 417
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device independent text captioned telephone service18 Aug 2026US 12,712,968 B2Ultratec, Inc.
- User interface to select or change caption language for captioned telephone service system17 Mar 2026US 12,581,011 B2Mezmo Corporation
- Device and method for notifying vehicle arrival to respond to transportation vulnerable13 Jan 2026US 12,522,247 B2Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
- Hearing accommodation23 Dec 2025US 12,506,832 B2Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC
- Semiautomated relay method and apparatus2 Dec 2025US 12,488,799 B2Ultratec, Inc.
- Semiautomated relay method and apparatus25 Dec 2025US 2025/0391402 A1Ultratec, Inc.
- Semiautomated relay method and apparatus25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299673 A1Ultratec, Inc.
- Transcription presentation of communication sessions14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259632 A1Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC
- Semiautomated relay method and apparatus24 Jul 2025US 2025/0239261 A1Ultratec, Inc.
- User interface to select or change caption language for captioned telephone service system3 Jul 2025US 2025/0220112 A1Mezmo Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for providing touch-sensitive screens for the visually impaired348US 6,489,951 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2002
- Transcription generation from multiple speech recognition systems312US 10,573,312 B1Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC · 2020
- Telephone for the deaf and method of using same273US 5,982,853 A1999
- Method and apparatus for a communication device for use by a hearing impaired/mute or deaf person or in silent environments231US 5,995,590 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1999
- Bedside control unit for a hospital bed221US 5,542,138 A1996