H04R 25/55
Electric hearing aids: using an external connection, either wireless or wired
Official title: {using an external connection, either wireless or wired}
H04R25/55 (Electric hearing aids: using an external connection, either wireless or wired) appears on 3,528 US grants and 4,311 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 4,311
- Assignees
- 616
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Binaural hearing system with distributed sensors, and method of its operation6 Oct 2026US 12,754,204 B2Sonova AG
- Hearing device with foveated bearforming and related method22 Sep 2026US 12,745,047 B2GN Hearing A/S
- Microphone assembly and method for providing hearing assistance with optimized directivity22 Sep 2026US 12,745,048 B2Sonova AG
- Antenna designs for hearing instruments15 Sep 2026US 12,738,635 B2Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Magnified binaural cues in a binaural hearing system15 Sep 2026US 12,739,573 B2Cochlear Limited
- Hearing aid with adaptive level steering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313301 A1Oticon A/S
- Magnetic induction antenna module1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295282 A1Cochlear Limited
- Hearing device incorporating conformal folded antenna1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304050 A1Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- Active coil damping24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292413 A1Cochlear Limited
- Hearing aid bowtie antenna optimized for ear to ear communications24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292414 A1Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hearing aid with wireless remote processor1,063US 5,721,783 A1998
- Wireless open ear canal earpiece473US 6,021,207 AResound Corporation · 2000
- Wired open ear canal earpiece384US 6,181,801 B2Resound Corporation · 2001
- Charging system for implantable hearing aids and tinnitus maskers369US 5,279,292 AImplex Corporation · 1994
- Hearing aid wireless network325US 7,778,432 B2GN ReSound A/S · 2010