H04R 2460/07
Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing
Official title: Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection
H04R2460/07 (Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing) appears on 591 US grants and 725 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 591
- Published applications
- 725
- Assignees
- 232
- Inventors
- 1,225
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 69 | 69 |
| 2024 | 46 | 60 |
| 2025 | 50 | 40 |
| 2026 | 22 | 35 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- See-through computer display systems18 Aug 2026US 12,710,659 B2Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
- Method and system for a headset with integrated environmental sensors11 Aug 2026US 12,706,579 B2Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
- Acoustic sealing analysis system11 Aug 2026US 12,707,215 B2ST Portfolio Holdings, LLC
- Multi-directional hearing aid adjustment using image capture16 Jun 2026US 12,659,674 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program16 Jun 2026US 12,659,686 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Hearing instrument processing mode selection27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255110 A1Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Acoustic sealing analysis system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255115 A1ST Portfolio Holdings, LLC
- Hearing aid for adjusting a processing parameter20 Aug 2026US 2026/0247088 A1Oticon A/S
- Filter information determination apparatus and method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238910 A1NTT, Inc.
- Hearing instrument and vision device systems13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238934 A1Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hearing aid with wireless remote processor1,063US 5,721,783 A1998
- Speaker equalization for mobile devices370US 9,300,266 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated · 2016
- Adjustment of acoustic properties based on proximity detection333US 8,452,020 B2Apple Inc. · 2013
- Electronic device for microphone operation196US 9,426,567 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2016
- Method and apparatus for creating a multi-dimensional communication space for use in a binaural audio system179US 7,876,903 B2Harris Corporation · 2011