H04R 2201/40
Details of arrangements for obtaining desired directional characteristic by combining a number
Official title: Details of arrangements for obtaining desired directional characteristic by combining a number of identical transducers covered by H04R1/40 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
H04R2201/40 (Details of arrangements for obtaining desired directional characteristic by combining a number) appears on 1,953 US grants and 2,137 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 1,953
- Published applications
- 2,137
- Assignees
- 755
- Inventors
- 3,760
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 8 | 0 |
| 1998 | 12 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 11 |
| 2003 | 2 | 14 |
| 2004 | 8 | 20 |
| 2005 | 6 | 30 |
| 2006 | 16 | 38 |
| 2007 | 15 | 34 |
| 2008 | 11 | 37 |
| 2009 | 18 | 48 |
| 2010 | 19 | 39 |
| 2011 | 27 | 34 |
| 2012 | 58 | 42 |
| 2013 | 37 | 60 |
| 2014 | 37 | 54 |
| 2015 | 57 | 71 |
| 2016 | 78 | 98 |
| 2017 | 109 | 130 |
| 2018 | 130 | 153 |
| 2019 | 165 | 153 |
| 2020 | 182 | 167 |
| 2021 | 167 | 219 |
| 2022 | 176 | 185 |
| 2023 | 194 | 179 |
| 2024 | 158 | 130 |
| 2025 | 132 | 109 |
| 2026 | 78 | 81 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Transducer, electronic device and transducer array8 Sep 2026US 12,732,745 B2Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Audio play optimization method, device and readable storage medium8 Sep 2026US 12,732,747 B2Goertek Technology Co., Ltd.
- Multi-lobe digital microphone enabled audio capture and spatialization for generating an immersive arena based audio experience8 Sep 2026US 12,732,766 B2Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
- Acoustic imaging systems for visual diagnosis8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313307 A1Fluke Corporation
- Diagnosis system for vehicle components1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298773 A1Magic Engineering Srl
- Techniques for Using Floodlight LEDs When Imaging Sensors Have an Insufficient Level of Detail for Identifying Hand Gestures, and Mixed-Reality Systems and Methods of Using These Techniques24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292120 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Tire property sensor system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276484 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
- Ambisonic microphone10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270612 A1Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sound localization system for teleconferencing using self-steering microphone arrays423US 5,335,011 ABell Communications Research, Inc. · 1994
- Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhanced acoustic imaging347US 8,965,546 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated · 2015
- Microphone actuation control system suitable for teleconference systems332US 4,658,425 AShure Brothers, Inc. · 1987
- Electronic apparatus having microphones with controllable front-side gain and rear-side gain331US 8,300,845 B2Motorola Mobility LLC · 2012
- Electroacoustical transducing313US 7,519,188 B2Bose Corporation · 2009