Patents Assigned to A/S
  • Patent number: 11689865
    Abstract: A hearing instrument includes: a first portion shaped and sized for placement at a pinna of a user's ear; and a second portion having an earpiece for placement in the user's ear canal; wherein the second portion also comprises a connector assembly configured for electrically coupling to the first portion, the connector assembly having a plurality of connector wires, the plurality of connector wires comprising a first connector wire; wherein the second portion also comprises a receiver or miniature loudspeaker for receipt of an audio drive signal through at least the first connector wire; and wherein the second portion also comprises a non-volatile memory circuit having a data interface configured for receipt and transmittal of module data, the non-volatile memory circuit configured to store the module data, wherein the stored module data at least comprises electroacoustic calibration parameter(s) of the receiver or the miniature loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Flemming Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11686292
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transporting a component of a wind turbine to a storing position, wherein the component is mounted on a transport frame, including providing a transport arrangement including at least two elongate, height-adjustable, self-propelled transporter units, positioning the transport frame with the component mounted thereon onto the transport arrangement such that the self-propelled transporter units are spaced apart by a predefined lateral distance from each other, using the transport arrangement, rolling the component to a storing position where at least one support device has been positioned, such that at least a part of the at least one support device is located between a pair of the self-propelled transporter units, lowering the self-propelled transporter units such that the transport frame comes to rest on the at least one support device, and removing the transport arrangement from under the supported transport frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventors: Peter Andresen, Michell Mirsbach Olsen
  • Patent number: 11684722
    Abstract: A drug delivery system comprises an indicator element and a sensor system. The indicator element is arranged to rotate relative to a reference component and corresponding to a reference axis and comprises a plurality of dipole magnets. The sensor system comprises a plurality of magnetometers arranged non-rotational relative to the reference component and adapted to determine continuous magnetic field values from the plurality of dipole magnets, as well as processor means configured to determine on the basis of measured values from the plurality of magnetometers a rotational position and/or a rotational movement of the indicator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Laurits Hoejgaard Olesen, Henrik Bengtsson, Leif Johannsen, Keld Baden-Kristensen, John Aasted Soerensen
  • Patent number: 11685708
    Abstract: Acrylamide photoinitiators are provided, in which a photoinitiator moiety and an acrylamide are incorporated into the photoinitiator structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jakob Vange, Petr Sehnal, David Jepson, Andrew Towns
  • Patent number: 11689852
    Abstract: An audio rendering device includes: at least one wireless communications interface configured to receive a first plurality of audio packets from a wireless communication device, the first plurality of audio packets including frames of audio data for a first audio channel from a set of one or more audio channels; and a processing unit; wherein the audio rendering device is configured to release, at respective first buffer release times, the frames of the audio data for the first audio channel from a first buffer for rendering by the processing unit; wherein the audio rendering device is configured to receive one or more messages from an other audio rendering device; and wherein the audio rendering device is configured to synchronize the first buffer release times with second buffer release times associated with the other audio rendering device based on the received one or more messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Thorkild Find Pedersen, Brian Dam Pedersen
  • Patent number: 11687613
    Abstract: Disclosed is technology for generating an accurate and lossless static object model of a dynamic webpage as it is rendered by a browser, including webpages that include a shadow DOM. A method includes receiving, at a computer system, a webpage, instantiating a headless web browser application to render the webpage by creating a document object model (“DOM”) and a cascading style sheet object model (“CSSOM”) in browser memory, the DOM and CSSOM representing dynamic rendered webpage content, injecting a probe script into the headless browser to retrieve the dynamic rendered content, traversing, by the probe script, the DOM, including traversing regular nodes of the DOM and shadow nodes of a shadow DOM, retrieving dynamic information for the regular and shadow nodes, and building a static object model based on the dynamic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SITEIMPROVE A/S
    Inventors: Mads Jacobsen, Per Jakobsen
  • Patent number: 11684724
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an auto-injector for administering a medicament. The auto injector comprising: a housing; a cartridge receiver configured to receive a cartridge comprising a first stopper; a drive module coupled to move a plunger rod between a retracted plunger rod position and an extended plunger rod position, the plunger rod being configured to move the first stopper; a resistance sensor configured to provide a resistance signal indicative of resistance against movement of the plunger rod; and a processing unit coupled to the drive module and to the resistance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Ascendis Pharma A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Egesborg, Steen Jensen, Martin Nørgaard Larsen, Johnny Elkjær, Bjørn Knud Andersen
  • Patent number: 11688387
    Abstract: A hearing apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to obtain a first speech signal; a processor configured to provide of an electrical output signal based on the first speech signal; and a receiver for providing an audio output signal based on the electrical output signal; wherein the hearing apparatus is configured to determine a first word count of the first speech signal, and update a total word count based on the first word count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Astrid Haastrup
  • Patent number: 11684073
    Abstract: A method for producing a lactic acid bacteria fermented milk product comprising fermenting milk with both inoculated lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and inoculated Bacillus bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Chr. Hansen A/S
    Inventors: Karin Bjerre, Mette Dines Cantor, Thomas Janzen, Patrick Derkx
  • Patent number: 11685910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having trehalase activity. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using a trehalase of the invention, in particular a process of producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: Zhengfang Kang, Kirk Matthew Schnorr, Lar Kobberøe Skov
  • Patent number: 11689870
    Abstract: A hearing device includes: a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; a memory unit; and an interface; wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain one or more security settings via the interface, the one or more security settings comprising a hearing device key identifier, verify the one or more security settings, and update the hearing device based on the one or more security settings if the one or more security settings are verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Brian Dam Pedersen, Allan Munk Vendelbo
  • Patent number: 11689869
    Abstract: A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user, e.g. fully or partially on the head of the user, comprises a) an input transducer for converting a sound comprising a target sound from a target talker and possible additional sound in an environment of the user, when the user wears the hearing device, to an electric sound signal representative of said sound, b) an auxiliary input unit configured to provide an auxiliary electric signal representative of said target signal or properties thereof, c) a processor connected to said input transducer and to said auxiliary input unit, and wherein said processor is configured to apply a processing algorithm to said electric sound signal, or a signal derived therefrom, to provide an enhanced signal by attenuating components of said additional sound relative to components of said target sound in said electric sound signal, or said signal derived therefrom. The auxiliary electric signal is derived from visual information, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Bruun Jensen, Sigurdur Sigurdsson
  • Patent number: 11684767
    Abstract: An infusion tube system and a method for manufacture are provided. An infusion tube system including an infusion tube and a connector attached to the infusion tube at an end of the infusion tube is disclosed. The connector has a proximal end and includes a connector body extending from a distal end to a proximal end along a center axis and defining a cavity. The connector body includes an end wall with an inner surface, and at least one vent opening, and a sidewall extending from the end wall along the center axis with an inner and outer surface. The connector includes a membrane covering the at least one vent opening, the membrane being welded to the inner surface of the end wall along at least one welding seam including a first welding seam such that the membrane covers and seals the at least one vent opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: UNOMEDICAL A/S
    Inventors: Peter Fruerlund, Jacob Andersen
  • Patent number: 11689867
    Abstract: A hearing system comprises a) at least one hearing device adapted for being worn on the head, or fully or partially implanted in the head, of a user, and b) a multitude of external, spatially separated, audio transmitters, each providing respective external electric sound signals comprising audio. The hearing system is configured to allow wireless communication, including audio communication, between the hearing device and the external audio transmitters, at least from the external audio transmitters to the at least one hearing device, to be established. The at least one hearing device comprises A) a multitude of microphones, each providing an electric input signal representative of sound; B) a beamformer filter providing a beamformed signal from the multitude of electric input signals; and C) an output unit configured to provide stimuli perceivable by the user as sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen
  • Patent number: 11684630
    Abstract: A synthetic composition for use in improving one or more co-morbid mental disorder symptoms of a patient with IBS, characterised in that the composition contains an effective amount of one or more neutral human milk oligosaccharides, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GLYCOM A/S
    Inventors: Bruce McConnell, Emma Elison, Louise Kristine Vigsnæs
  • Patent number: 11686410
    Abstract: A rubber composition for a cover layer of a hydraulic hose includes: ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA); and ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer (EPDM). In an embodiment, the composition includes ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) and ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer (EPDM) and additives. The additives may include carbon black with a content of around 15 phr, silica with a content of around 20 phr, di-octyl adipate with a content of around 18 phr, aluminium hydroxide with a content of around 124 phr, magnesium hydroxide with a content of around 30 phr, and other chemicals with a content of around 20 phr. The other chemicals may include zinc oxide, peroxide curative, antioxidant, coagents and processing aids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS II TECHNOLOGY A/S
    Inventors: Recep Muco, Muslum Eren, Volkan Karayazi, Tekin Coskun, Ozgur Caliskan
  • Publication number: 20230199411
    Abstract: A method of estimating a real-ear-to-coupler-difference (RECD) in a hearing is provided. The hearing aid comprises an input transducer; an output transducer; and an ITE-part configured to define a residual volume when mounted in an ear canal of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Svend Oscar PETERSEN, Karsten Bo RASMUSSEN, Steen Michael MUNK
  • Publication number: 20230193260
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to antisense oligonucleotides, which target SNCA mRNA (e.g., at an intron exon junction) in a cell, leading to reduced expression of SNCA protein. Reduction of SNCA protein expression is beneficial for the treatment of certain medical disorders, e.g., a neurological disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S
    Inventors: Richard E. OLSON, Angela M. Cacace, Jere E. Meredith, JR., Nino Devidze, James K. Loy, Carl J. Baldick, Annapurna Pendri, Ivar M. McDonald, Peter Hagedorn, Marianne Lerbech Jensen
  • Publication number: 20230190424
    Abstract: A three-dimensional optical scanning system for scanning a three-dimensional dental object, the system including a first scanning station configured to receive a first three-dimensional dental object, and further configured to rotate around a first axis during the scanning; and an imaging unit including at least one camera and configured to rotate around an imaging unit axis during the scanning, wherein the optical scanning system is configured such that the imaging unit acquires a plurality of two-dimensional images of the first three-dimensional dental object corresponding to a set of predefined static relative positions between the imaging unit and the first scanning station for generating a first three-dimensional digital representation of the first three-dimensional dental object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: 3SHAPE A/S
    Inventors: Morten Bo BONDING, Sergey MESCHERINOV
  • Publication number: 20230189844
    Abstract: The reformulation of RONOZYME® ProAct protease polypeptide to a more economical microgranulate, extrudate, high-shear granulate or spray drying formulation each provide good thermostability and suitability for use as an animal feed additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventor: Flemming Borup