H04R 25/652
Ear tips
Official title: {Ear tips; Ear moulds (hybrid ear moulds or post-processing thereof for their customisation H04R25/659)}
H04R25/652 (Ear tips) appears on 1,179 US grants and 1,294 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 1,179
- Published applications
- 1,294
- Assignees
- 354
- Inventors
- 1,781
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hearing instrument and associated binaural hearing system15 Sep 2026US 12,739,579 B2Sivantos Pte.Ltd
- Ear piece for a hearing device11 Aug 2026US 12,707,210 B2Sonova AG
- Hearing device for placement in the ear having a receiver11 Aug 2026US 12,707,211 B2GN Hearing A/S
- Hearing aid comprising a speaker unit4 Aug 2026US 12,701,369 B2Oticon A/S
- Ear-wearable hearing device16 Jun 2026US 12,659,672 B2Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
- A wearable electronic device comprising an rf antenna8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306856 A1Uneeg Medical A/S
- Ear Piece for a Hearing Device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292420 A1Sonova AG
- Ear tip for a hearing device and hearing device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281636 A1Sivantos Pte.Ltd
- Audio assembly for a hearing device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270631 A1Sonion Nederland B. V.
- Receiver Module and Arrangement27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255113 A1Sonova AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for conveying amplified sound to ear409US 5,201,007 AEpic Corporation · 1993
- Ear canal microphone389US 5,987,146 AResound Corporation · 1999
- Vented ear tip for hearing aid and adapter coupler therefore367US 4,375,016 AQualitone Hearing Aids, Inc. · 1983
- Hearing aid344US 6,690,807 B12004
- Auditory canal insert for hearing aids334US 5,654,530 ASiemens Audiologische Technik GmbH · 1997