Patents Examined by Tuan D. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11873213
    Abstract: An electrostatic-type transducer (1) includes: an insulator sheet (11) formed of an elastomer; a plurality of first electrode sheets (12, 13, 14) which is arranged on a front surface side of the insulator sheet (11), adhered to the insulator sheet (11) by fusion of the insulator sheet (11), and arranged with a distance from each other in the surface direction of the insulator sheet (11); and one second electrode sheet (15) which is disposed on the back surface side of the insulator sheet (11) and adhered to the insulator sheet (11) by fusion of the insulator sheet (11), and in which portions facing the plurality of first electrode sheets (12, 13, 14) and portions facing each region between the adjacent first electrode sheets (12, 13, 14) in the surface direction are formed integrally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Hasegawa, Shinya Tahara, Katsuhiko Nakano, Masaaki Hamada, Masaki Nasu
  • Patent number: 11863696
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein attaches to a communications handset cradle to improve accessibility. In a particular embodiment, an apparatus includes a connector for affixing the apparatus to a telephone handset cradle. The apparatus also includes a bottom face with a first sidewall and a second sidewall extending from the bottom face. A distance between the first sidewall and the second sidewall tapers towards the cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: Philip Lo, James Erskine
  • Patent number: 11863937
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hearing system including a first hearing device configured to be worn at a first ear of a user and a second hearing device configured to be worn at a second ear of the user. The first hearing device includes a first physiological sensor configured to provide sensor data indicative of a physiological property of the user and the second hearing device includes a second physiological sensor configured to provide sensor data indicative of the same physiological property as the sensor data provided by the first physiological sensor. A processing unit may be configured to control the first and second physiological sensor to alternatingly provide the sensor data in subsequent time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Konstantin Silberzahn, Anne Thielen, Patrizia Richner, Markus Leuthold, Katja Dietrich, Adem Bici, Matthias Riepenhoff, Evgeny Murtola, Emily Urry
  • Patent number: 11856390
    Abstract: A game headset receives a plurality of channels of game and/or chat audio during game play, monitors the plurality of channels, and detect one or more sounds on the channels during the monitoring. The game headset determines characteristics of the detected one or more sound and outputs one or more signals for generating a visual representation of the detected one or more sounds based on the determined characteristics. The game headset output the signals to a game console that provides the game play. The game console displays the visual representation during the game play based on the communicated visualization information. The one or more signals is a video stream of an in-game visualization. The game headset outputs the one or more signals to a second screen communication device that generates the visual representation during the game play based on the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Kulavik, Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari
  • Patent number: 11856349
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a first terminal portion disposed with a first sound output hole and a second terminal portion disposed with a second sound output hole and a receiver. The second terminal portion can move between a first position and a second position relative to the first terminal portion. At the first position, the first sound output hole is connected to the second sound output hole, and at the second position, the second sound output hole is staggered from the first terminal portion. A baffle is disposed on the second terminal portion. The second terminal portion is located at the second position relative to the first terminal portion, and the baffle covers the second sound output hole. The second terminal portion is located at the first position relative to the first terminal portion, the baffle is removed away from the second sound output hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwen You, Junhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11856384
    Abstract: A speaker including a frame; a magnetic circuit system fixed to the frame, comprises a plurality of magnetic circuit devices connected to each with a magnetic gap; a vibration system driven by the magnetic to vibrator, comprises a diaphragm fixed to the frame and a plurality of voice coil assembly inserted into the magnetic gap drive the diaphragm vibrate jointly. the speaker can drive the diaphragm to vibrate and produce sound with a greater driving force, and the magnetic circuit system has a higher magnetic field. The efficiency makes the speaker have a better sound effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keyong Zhou, Xudong Yan, Yuanxiang Mao
  • Patent number: 11843919
    Abstract: Treatment actions can be taken based on an analysis of the ability of a recipient of an auditory prosthesis to perceive musical activities. The occurrence of musical activities and the recipients response thereto can be determined based on transducers. The recipients musical perception can be determined by analyzing the signals from the transducers as stand-alone measures or by comparing the signals against known music. The treatment actions can relate to the treatment of a hearing-impairment of the recipient of the auditory prosthesis, such as by modifying the settings of the auditory prosthesis to affect the ongoing operation of the auditory prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Ivana Popovac, Alexander von Brasch, Justin James Gilmour, Matthew Zygorodimos, Rishi Wadhwani, James Davies
  • Patent number: 11811959
    Abstract: A mount for a handheld electronic device is adapted to be attached to a flat vertical glossy environmental surface, such as a mirror, with suction cups. A shelf with an upwardly concave center section holds electronic devices of various sizes and will hold an electronic device in a vertical orientation even if the mount is attached to the mirror at a small angle to the vertical. The shelf may hold the electronic device in either portrait or landscape orientation. The shelf permits a cable to be plugged into the bottom of the electronic device by being routed through a central notch in the shelf and an opening in a lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MACNEIL IP LLC
    Inventors: David S. Iverson, David F. MacNeil
  • Patent number: 11772573
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of a bracket, and discloses a vehicle-mounted bracket, comprising: a support base, a wireless charger, a magnetic-suction finger ring assembly, an adjustment assembly and a locking assembly, the wireless charger and the support base being combined to form a magnetic-suction wireless charging vehicle-mounted bracket, the magnetic-suction finger ring assembly and the support base being combined to form a magnetic-suction vehicle-mounted bracket, and the adjustment assembly being used for rotatably adjusting a support state of the support base. The application increases the functionality of the vehicle-mounted bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dongguan Lanhai Composite Materials Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhixu Zheng, Shenghu Wu, Shenghai Yu, Dangzhen Xie
  • Patent number: 11776558
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory and configured to execute instructions to generate a modified audiogram for a user of a hearing device. The modified audiogram may be based on a frequency lowering scheme that maps at least some audio frequencies included in a first set of audio frequencies to relatively lower audio frequencies to form a second set of audio frequencies. The modified audiogram may indicate a set of modified hearing thresholds of the user at the first set of audio frequencies. The generating of the modified audiogram may include applying an inverse of the frequency lowering scheme to the set of modified hearing thresholds at the second set of audio frequencies to obtain the set of modified hearing thresholds of the modified audiogram at the first set of audio frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Ullrich Sigwanz, Robert Baur
  • Patent number: 11765515
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magnetic circuit assembly of a bone conduction speaker. The magnetic circuit assembly may generate a first magnetic field. The magnetic circuit assembly may include a first magnetic element, and the first magnetic element may generate a second magnetic field. The magnetic circuit may further include a first magnetic guide element and at least one second magnetic element. The at least one second magnetic element may be configured to surround the first magnetic element and a magnetic gap may be configured between the second magnetic element and the first magnetic element. A magnetic field strength of the first magnetic field within the magnetic gap may exceed a magnetic field strength of the second magnetic field within the magnetic gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11765526
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to the wireless stereo reception of first and second audio information by wireless hearing communication devices. One type of device which may employ the present subject matter is a hearing assistance device, such as a hearing aid. Various forms and protocols of signal transmission are employed in varying embodiments. The present subject matter includes various communication modes such as eavesdropping modes and relaying modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Paul Solum
  • Patent number: 11743660
    Abstract: A hearing aid and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the hearing includes a body that at least partially conforms to the contours of the external ear and is sized to engage therewith. Various electronic components are contained within the body, including an electronic signal processor that is programmed with a preferred hearing range, which may be an about 10 Hz frequency to an about 30 Hz frequency range of sound corresponding to highest hearing capacity of a patient. Sound received at the hearing aid is converted to the preferred hearing range prior to output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Institute of Science, Inc.
    Inventor: Laslo Olah
  • Patent number: 11736600
    Abstract: A protective bag into which a mobile device can be placed to limit exposure of the device to unsanitary conditions or conversely to limit exposure of other surfaces to an unsanitary mobile device. The protective bags are distributed to users using a dispenser. The system improves overall hygiene associated with use of mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Mobile Guard RX, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Magner, Siddharth Chhokar, Derek King
  • Patent number: 11736845
    Abstract: A microphone component and a method for fabricating a microphone component are disclosed. In an embodiment, a microphone component includes a membrane and a backplate, wherein the membrane includes a plurality of holes, and wherein the holes have diameters smaller than 5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Pirmin Hermann Otto Rombach, Dennis Mortensen
  • Patent number: 11736870
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for neural network-driven frequency translation for hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include a method of signal processing an input signal in a hearing assistance device, the hearing assistance device including a receiver and a microphone. The method includes performing neural network processing to train a processor to identify acoustic features in a plurality of audio signals and predict target outputs for the plurality of audio signals, and using the trained processor to control frequency translation of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly Fitz, Tao Zhang, Buye Xu, Mohammad Abdollahi
  • Patent number: 11716576
    Abstract: A piezoelectric microelectromechanical system microphone comprises a piezoelectric element configured to deform and generate an electrical potential responsive to impingement of sound waves on the piezoelectric element, a sensing electrode disposed on the piezoelectric element and configured to sense the electrical potential, and a dummy electrode electrically unconnected to the sensing electrode and disposed on a portion of the piezoelectric element that is free of the sensing electrode, the dummy electrode configured to reduce static deformation of the piezoelectric element caused by residual stresses in the piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Guofeng Chen, You Qian, Rakesh Kumar, Michael Jon Wurtz, Humberto Campanella-Pineda
  • Patent number: 11711654
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magnetic circuit assembly of a bone conduction speaker. The magnetic circuit assembly may generate a first magnetic field. The magnetic circuit assembly may include a first magnetic element, and the first magnetic element may generate a second magnetic field. The magnetic circuit may further include a first magnetic guide element and at least one second magnetic element. The at least one second magnetic element may be configured to surround the first magnetic element and a magnetic gap may be configured between the second magnetic element and the first magnetic element. A magnetic field strength of the first magnetic field within the magnetic gap may exceed a magnetic field strength of the second magnetic field within the magnetic gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11711641
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to microphone devices. One microphone assembly includes a transducer and a housing. The microphone assembly includes an integrated circuit coupled to the transducer. The housing includes a port, a base, and a cover. The cover includes an inner wall and an outer wall. The inner wall and outer wall can be coupled to the base. The inner wall and the base are mechanically coupled and define an enclosed volume. The transducer is disposed in the enclosed volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: KNOWLES ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Yochem, Meiling Huang
  • Patent number: 11706571
    Abstract: Ultrasonic transducers that are capable of generating increased levels of ultrasound, as well as receiving ultrasonic waves with increased sensitivity. The ultrasonic transducers include a back cover, a protective front cover, a backplate, and a vibrator film layer disposed between the backplate and the protective front cover. The backplate includes a plurality of grooves formed on a surface thereof facing the vibrator film layer. Each groove includes upper edges having cross-sectional contours that gradually tend toward the deepest part of the groove to allow a larger area of the backplate to be closer to the vibrator film layer, thereby increasing the resulting electric field, and, consequently, increasing the output power and sensitivity of the ultrasonic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Frank Joseph Pompei