H04R 21/02
Microphones
H04R21/02 (Microphones) appears on 27 US grants and 23 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 27
- Published applications
- 23
- Assignees
- 31
- Inventors
- 86
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vibration sensor12 May 2026US 12,627,916 B2Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- Microphone apparatus24 Jun 2025US 12,342,113 B2Nokia Technologies Oy
- Spectral compensation filters for close proximity sound sources14 Jan 2025US 12,200,438 B2Meridian Audio Ltd.
- Variable voltage phantom power supply assembly and a method for customizing performance characteristics of a microphone24 Oct 2023US 11,800,282 B1Copperline Ranch
- Sensor having deformable film portion and magnetic portion and electronic device29 Sep 2020US 10,788,545 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Roll-to-roll micro-scale thermal wire microphone4 Jul 2024US 2024/0223969 A1Nikon Corporation
- Vibration sensor9 Nov 2023US 2023/0362525 A1Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- A Microphone Apparatus12 Oct 2023US 2023/0328415 A1Nokia Technologies Oy
- Spectral compensation filters for close proximity sound sources8 Dec 2022US 2022/0394379 A1Meridian Audio Ltd.
- Sensor and electronic device21 Mar 2019US 2019/0086481 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mechanically biased semiconductor strain sensitive microphone38US 4,182,937 AInternational Standard Electric Corporation · 1980
- Miniature acoustic detector based on electron surface tunneling20US 7,280,436 B2Corporation for National Research Initiatives · 2007
- Acoustic pressure transducer13US 8,705,774 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2014
- Environmentally sealed acoustic transducer coupling12US 5,729,508 ARosemount Aerospace Inc. · 1998
- Magnetoresistive microphone and acoustic sensing devices7US 5,450,372 AAT&T Corp. · 1995