Patents by Inventor Jan Patrick Frieding

Jan Patrick Frieding has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11057720
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for adapting settings/operations of a remote microphone device associated with an auditory prosthesis based on a desired/preferred listening direction of a recipient of the auditory prosthesis. More specifically, an auditory prosthesis worn by a recipient and a remote microphone device, which are configured to wirelessly communicate with one another, are both positioned in the same spatial area. At least one of a recipient-specified (e.g., recipient-preferred) region of interest within the spatial area, or a recipient-specified listening direction, is determined. Based on a determined relative positioning (e.g., location and orientation) of the remote microphone device and the auditory prosthesis, operation of the remote microphone device is dynamically adapted so that the remote microphone device can focus on (e.g., have increased sensitivity to) sounds originating from the recipient-specified region of interest/listening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Soren Nilsson, Kenneth Oplinger, Alexander von Brasch, Roger Smith, Richard Murphy
  • Patent number: 10967176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
  • Publication number: 20200267481
    Abstract: A portable body carried device, including a mobile computer having a display, wherein the portable body carried device is configured to receive data from a hearing prosthesis, such as a cochlear implant, and present an interface display on the display from among a plurality of different interface displays based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Ivana POPOVAC, Victor Manuel RODRIGUES, Rishubh VERMA, Kenneth OPLINGER, Jan Patrick FRIEDING, Adam SCHINDHELM
  • Publication number: 20200252730
    Abstract: Presented herein are integrated techniques to address the perception of distracting sounds by a recipient's residual hearing during testing of a hearing prosthesis. More specifically, in accordance with embodiments presented herein, a first hearing prosthesis located at a first ear of a recipient is configured to selectively operate in a testing-assistance mode in order to support or supplement the testing of testing of the first hearing prosthesis or a second hearing prosthesis located at a second car of the recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ryan Orin Melman
  • Patent number: 10575108
    Abstract: A portable body carried device, including a mobile computer having a display, wherein the portable body carried device is configured to receive data from a hearing prosthesis, such as a cochlear implant, and present an interface display on the display from among a plurality of different interface displays based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Ivana Popovac, Victor Manuel Rodrigues, Rishubh Verma, Kenneth Oplinger, Jan Patrick Frieding, Adam Schindhelm
  • Publication number: 20190098129
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
  • Patent number: 10212524
    Abstract: A boot is used to cover an inlet of a microphone of an auditory prosthesis. The boot prevents water, sweat, and other debris from damaging the microphone or entering the prosthesis housing. Additionally, the boot can include structure that helps dampen vibrations within the auditory prosthesis, thus improving microphone performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITED
    Inventors: James Vandyke, David Harte, Jan Patrick Frieding
  • Patent number: 10148809
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state. The second user interface provides access to a greater number of functions of the hearing device than first user interface provides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITED
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
  • Publication number: 20170339498
    Abstract: A boot is used to cover an inlet of a microphone of an auditory prosthesis. The boot prevents water, sweat, and other debris from damaging the microphone or entering the prosthesis housing. Additionally, the boot can include structure that helps dampen vibrations within the auditory prosthesis, thus improving microphone performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: James Vandyke, David Harte, Jan Patrick Frieding
  • Patent number: 9769578
    Abstract: A boot is used to cover an inlet of a microphone of an auditory prosthesis. The boot prevents water, sweat, and other debris from damaging the microphone or entering the prosthesis housing. Additionally, the boot can include structure that helps dampen vibrations within the auditory prosthesis, thus improving microphone performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITED
    Inventors: James Vandyke, David Harte, Jan Patrick Frieding
  • Publication number: 20170237850
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state. The second user interface provides access to a greater number of functions of the hearing device than first user interface provides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
  • Patent number: 9643018
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state. The second user interface provides access to a greater number of functions of the hearing device than first user interface provides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
  • Publication number: 20170064470
    Abstract: A portable body carried device, including a mobile computer having a display, wherein the portable body carried device is configured to receive data from a hearing prosthesis, such as a cochlear implant, and present an interface display on the display from among a plurality of different interface displays based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Ivana POPOVAC, Victor Manuel RODRIGUES, Rishubh VERMA, Kenneth OPLINGER, Jan Patrick FRIEDING, Adam SCHINDHELM
  • Publication number: 20160331964
    Abstract: A sensory supplement medical device, including a stimulation device configured to implement a first functionality of the sensory supplement medical device corresponding to the providing of sensory supplement to a recipient to evoke a sensory percept, wherein the sensory supplement medical device is configured to implement a secondary functionality different from the first functionality, and the sensory supplement medical device is configured to migrate the second functionality to a device remote from the sensory supplement medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Harry XIAO, Jan Patrick FRIEDING, Kenneth OPLINGER, Rishubh VERMA, Martin Evert Gustaf HILLBRATT, Michael TRIEU
  • Publication number: 20160089542
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state. The second user interface provides access to a greater number of functions of the hearing device than first user interface provides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Jan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
  • Publication number: 20150271610
    Abstract: A boot is used to cover an inlet of a microphone of an auditory prosthesis. The boot prevents water, sweat, and other debris from damaging the microphone or entering the prosthesis housing. Additionally, the boot can include structure that helps dampen vibrations within the auditory prosthesis, thus improving microphone performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: James Vandyke, David Harte, Jan Patrick Frieding