H04R 25/02
Electric hearing aids: adapted to be supported entirely by ear
Official title: adapted to be supported entirely by ear
H04R25/02 (Electric hearing aids: adapted to be supported entirely by ear) appears on 268 US grants and 346 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 268
- Published applications
- 346
- Assignees
- 98
- Inventors
- 476
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 12 |
| 2010 | 3 | 7 |
| 2011 | 3 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 | 6 |
| 2013 | 10 | 13 |
| 2014 | 13 | 22 |
| 2015 | 9 | 14 |
| 2016 | 12 | 22 |
| 2017 | 20 | 16 |
| 2018 | 12 | 21 |
| 2019 | 20 | 28 |
| 2020 | 24 | 27 |
| 2021 | 22 | 44 |
| 2022 | 35 | 27 |
| 2023 | 30 | 23 |
| 2024 | 17 | 17 |
| 2025 | 15 | 16 |
| 2026 | 7 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Hearing device with multiple input multiple output DC-DC converter1 Sep 2026US 12,726,775 B2GN Hearing A/S
- Electronic device worn on the body, hearing aid instrument, and voltage supply for such a device18 Aug 2026US 12,712,431 B2Sivantos Pte.Ltd
- Hearing aid with ear EEG recording4 Aug 2026US 12,697,067 B2Oticon A/S
- Bone conduction assistive hearing aid21 Jul 2026US 12,689,861 B2Oxti Pte Ltd
- Ear-wearable hearing device16 Jun 2026US 12,659,672 B2Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Sound-producing transducer for ear-worn hearing device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292419 A1Knowles Electronics, LLC
- Audio assembly for a hearing device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270631 A1Sonion Nederland B. V.
- hearing aid with a beamformer equivalent with single-channel filtering16 Jul 2026US 2026/0205743 A1Oticon A/S
- Ear-wearable electronic device18 Jun 2026US 2026/0172766 A1Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Ear-worn electronic device employing user-initiated acoustic environment adaptation30 Apr 2026US 2026/0122431 A1Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hearing aid headband support95US 4,918,757 A1990
- Directional microphone assembly93US 5,878,147 AEtymotic Research, Inc. · 1999
- Ear-mounted transducer and ear-device90US 8,014,553 B2Nokia Corporation · 2011
- Earpiece passive noise attenuating71US 8,737,669 B2Bose Corporation · 2014
- Balanced armature devices and methods for hearing59US 8,858,419 B2Earlens Corporation · 2014