H04R 2460/13
Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers
H04R2460/13 (Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers) appears on 1,839 US grants and 2,402 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 1,839
- Published applications
- 2,402
- Assignees
- 499
- Inventors
- 2,306
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 5 | 7 |
| 2003 | 9 | 12 |
| 2004 | 8 | 26 |
| 2005 | 13 | 26 |
| 2006 | 12 | 20 |
| 2007 | 16 | 33 |
| 2008 | 12 | 21 |
| 2009 | 12 | 61 |
| 2010 | 19 | 44 |
| 2011 | 13 | 35 |
| 2012 | 37 | 41 |
| 2013 | 50 | 69 |
| 2014 | 47 | 80 |
| 2015 | 72 | 101 |
| 2016 | 61 | 114 |
| 2017 | 101 | 129 |
| 2018 | 126 | 141 |
| 2019 | 116 | 110 |
| 2020 | 127 | 90 |
| 2021 | 123 | 265 |
| 2022 | 153 | 189 |
| 2023 | 205 | 227 |
| 2024 | 182 | 239 |
| 2025 | 161 | 187 |
| 2026 | 110 | 131 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Apparatus and method for assessing device function of a bilateral sensory system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295253 A1Cochlear Limited
- Dive mask1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296610 A1
- Transducer devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304031 A1Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
- Glasses24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287935 A1Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Two active element in-the-ear microphone system507US 5,692,059 A1997
- Wireless biopotential sensing device and method with capability of short-range radio frequency transmission and reception484US 6,694,180 B12004
- Wireless transmitting and receiving systems including ear microphones385US 4,334,315 AGen Engineering, Ltd. · 1982
- Piezoelectric bone conductive in ear voice sounds transmitting and receiving apparatus368US 4,150,262 A1979
- Wide audio bandwidth transduction method and device365US 6,631,197 B1GN ReSound North America Corporation · 2003