Patents Assigned to A/S
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Publication number: 20230188908Abstract: A hearing instrument charger device for charging an individually shaped hearing instrument, includes: a charger casing; a charger power supply within the charger casing; a first charger coil connected to the charger power supply; charger electronics for controlling charging of the hearing instrument; and a holder configured for receiving the hearing instrument, the holder located within the charger casing; wherein the holder for the hearing instrument has a shape that is specific for the individually shaped hearing instrument, such that when the individually shaped hearing instrument is received in the holder, a second charger coil of the individually shaped hearing instrument is in an operative position for receiving charging power from the first charger coil of the hearing instrument charger device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Henrik NIELSEN, Søren DAVIDS, Thomas John CHAPPELL
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Publication number: 20230181478Abstract: A water-dissolvable nicotine tablet is disclosed, the nicotine tablet comprising at least a first compressed module and a second compressed module, wherein the first compressed module is an FDT-module and comprises nicotine, alkaline pH regulating agent, and disintegrant, and, wherein the second compressed module is a lozenge-module and comprises acidic pH regulating agent. Also, a method of manufacturing a nicotine tablet is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Fertin Pharma A/SInventors: Kent Albin Nielsen, Rikke Pranger-Rasmussen, Dorthe Schackinger Boesen, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen
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Publication number: 20230188910Abstract: A hearing system is disclosed comprising a support unit, and at least one abutment unit, wherein the support unit supports the at least one abutment unit. The at least one abutment unit has a contact surface. The support unit is configured to be placed at a user's head such that the contact surface of the at least one abutment unit contacts the user's head in an area surrounding one of the user's ears, in particular, in an area of one of the user's mastoid bones. The at least one abutment unit comprises a contact element, the contact element being configured to transmit vibrations generated by a vibration generating unit towards the contact surface. The contact element is made of a fiber-reinforced plastic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Oticon Medical A/SInventors: Morten Brandt Karlsen, Adis Bjelosevic, David Ginty, Maja Thorning-Schmidt
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Publication number: 20230183667Abstract: The present invention relates to xylanase variants, polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; compositions comprising the xylanase variants and methods of using the variants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Annette Helle Johansen, Steffen Danielsen, Frank Winther Rasmussen, Peter Kamp Hansen, Roland Alexander Pache
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Publication number: 20230183669Abstract: The present invention relates to protease variants and methods for obtaining protease variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Jens Erik Nielsen, Pernille Hede, Esben Peter Friis
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Publication number: 20230181062Abstract: An electronic device and a method for hearing test of a user is disclosed, the method comprising obtaining one or more first test parameters including a first primary test parameter; displaying a first user interface comprising a first primary user interface element according to the first primary test parameter; outputting a first primary test signal according to the first primary test parameter; while displaying the first user interface, detecting a first user input indicative of a request for change in the first primary test signal; determining a second primary test parameter according to the first user input indicative of a request for change in the first primary test signal; updating and displaying the first user interface according to the second primary test parameter; and outputting a second primary test signal according to the second primary test parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: GN Hearing A/SInventors: Qi YANG, Aalbert DE VRIES, Robyn OLIVER, Dorea RUGGLES
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Publication number: 20230186934Abstract: A hearing device includes a) a multitude of input transducers providing a corresponding multitude of electric input signals; and b) a processor for providing a processed signal in dependence of the electric input signals. The processor includes b1) a beamformer for providing a spatially filtered signal in dependence of electric input signals and beamformer filter coefficients determined in dependence of a fixed steering vector including as elements respective acoustic transfer functions from a target signal source, to each of said multitude of input transducers; and b2) a target adaptation module connected to the input transducers and to at least one beamformer, the target adaptation module being configured to provide compensation signals to compensate the electric input signals so that they match the fixed steering vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Jan M. DE HAAN, Robert REHR, Sebastien CURDY-NEVES, Svend FELDT, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Michael Noes GÄTKE, Mohammad EL-SAYED, Stig PETRI, Karsten BONKE, Gary Jones, Poul Hoang
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Publication number: 20230188913Abstract: A system for validation of a hearing aid performance, especially in small children is disclosed. The validation of the performance of hearing aids after having being fitted to a small child who is not able to subjectively provide responses to sounds presented to the child via the hearing aids, is instead done in an objective manner, by using a naturally occurring signal, which has been modulated in order to create an ASSR evoking speech stimulus which is not considered as noise by a hearing aid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: INTERACOUSTICS A/SInventors: Søren Laugesen, Bue Kristensen
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Publication number: 20230186931Abstract: A method for speech equalization, comprising the steps of receiving an input audio signal, processing said input audio signal in dependence on frequency and to providing an equalized electric audio signal according to an equalization function, wherein said equalization function comprises at least an actuator part configured to dynamically applying a compensation filter to the received input signal and dynamically applying a transparent filter to the received input signal, and further transmitting an output signal perceivable by a user as sound representative of said electric acoustic input signal or a processed version thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: EPOS Group A/SInventors: Anders Røser HANSEN, Poul Peder HESTBEK, Svend FELDT, Casper FYNSK
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Publication number: 20230186548Abstract: Disclosed is surface guided cropping in volume rendering of 3D volumetric data from intervening anatomical structures in the patient's body. A digital 3D representation expressing the topography of a first anatomical structure is used to define a clipping surface or a bounding volume which then is used in the volume rendering to exclude data from an intervening structure when generating a 2D projection of the first anatomical structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Anders KJÆR-NIELSEN, Adam Carsten STOOT
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Publication number: 20230188906Abstract: An audio streaming device for streaming an audio signal to at least one hearing assistive device (32). The audio streaming device comprises at least one input transducer (21), an electronic sensor device (28) adapted for sensing gravitational forces acting on the audio streaming device (20), and a transmitter (30) adapted for streaming audio from the at least one input transducer (21) to the at least one hearing assistive device (32). The audio streaming device (20) further comprises a shock protection unit (31) adapted for comparing an output signal from the electronic sensor device (28) to a first threshold value, and ceasing streaming by the transmitter (30) of the audio stream from the at least one input transducer (21), when the output signal from the electronic sensor device (28) exceeds the first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Widex A/SInventors: Morten SCHMIDT, Soren Bredahl GREINER
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Publication number: 20230188881Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hearing device assembly comprising a behind-the-ear base unit and an in-the-ear transducer module, which communicate via a communication interface and wherein the base unit is configured to detect whether the transducer module comprises a microcontroller.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: GN Hearing A/SInventor: Flemming SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 11674500Abstract: A method for controlling a wind energy farm is disclosed. A wake state of the wind energy farm is determined, including determining wake chains defining wake relationships among the wind turbines of the wind farm under the current wind conditions. For at least one of the wind turbines of the wind energy farm, a lifetime usage is estimated, based on an accumulated load measure for the wind turbine. In the case that the estimated lifetime usage is below a predefined lifetime usage limit, the wind turbine is operated in an overrated state, while monitoring wake effects at each of the wind turbines. In the case that a downstream wind turbine detects wake effects above a predefined wake threshold level, at least one wind turbine having an upstream wake relationship with the downstream wind turbine is requested to decrease the generated wake, e.g. by decreasing power production.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Jacob Deleuran Grunnet, Anders Steen Nielsen
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Patent number: 11676621Abstract: A hearing device includes: an input module for provision of a first input signal; a processor configured to provide an electrical output signal based on the first input signal; a receiver configured to provide an audio output signal; and a controller comprising a speech intelligibility estimator configured to determine a speech intelligibility indicator indicative of speech intelligibility based on the first input signal, wherein the controller is configured to control the processor based on the speech intelligibility indicator; wherein the speech intelligibility estimator comprises a decomposition module configured to decompose the first input signal into a first representation of the first input signal in a frequency domain, wherein the first representation comprises one or more elements representative of the first input signal; and wherein the decomposition module comprises one or more characterization blocks for characterizing the one or more elements of the first representation in the frequency domain.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: GN HEARING A/SInventors: Charlotte Sørensen, Jesper B. Boldt, Angeliki Xenaki, Mathew Shaji Kavalekalam, Mads G Christensen
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Patent number: 11677299Abstract: Embodiments herein provide an electrical machine comprising a stator with a stator winding arrangement, a rotor arranged for rotation inside the stator, a machine housing for housing the stator, at least one temperature sensor arrangement and wherein a sensor-end of the temperature sensor is arranged for insertion into the immersion sleeve and for insertion through an insertion bore arranged in an opening in the machine housing, so that the sensor-end of the temperature sensor is positioned within a cooling slot of the stator windings, when inserted, so as to allow sensing of a temperature of measure of temperature of the stator windings by electric connection to the wire-end of the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventor: Ulrich Meinekat
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Patent number: 11673900Abstract: The present invention provides processes for preparing 7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine derivatives, which are useful as a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, intermediates thereof, and processes for preparing the intermediates. The present invention provides processes for preparing 3-[(3S,4R)-3-methyl-6-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1,6-diazaspiro[3.4]octan-1-yl]-3-oxopropanenitrile using salts of (3S,4R)-1-benzyl-3-methyl-1,6-diazaspiro[3.4]octane with organic acids.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: Japan Tobacco Inc., LEO Pharma A/SInventors: Hiromu Takiguchi, Akinobu Higashi, Takashi Inaba, Takashi Watanabe, Tsubasa Takeichi, Anders Klarskov Petersen, Per Vedsoe, Kim Lebek Jensen, Jan Bornholdt, Soren Ebdrup
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Patent number: 11678099Abstract: Disclosed is a hearing device configured to be worn in an ear of a user. The hearing device is configured to provide an audio signal to the user. The hearing device comprises a circuit assembly. The circuit assembly comprises a printed circuit board assembly. The printed circuit board assembly comprises: a first circuit board; a second circuit board; a third circuit board interconnected with the first circuit board and the second circuit board; and a fourth circuit board. The circuit assembly comprises a battery, wherein the printed circuit board assembly is folded about the battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: GN HEARING 2 A/SInventor: Emil Holm Knudsen
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Patent number: 11674127Abstract: A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e?) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/SInventors: Joseph Jump, Nathaniel Edward Kreel, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Chee-Leong Soong, Madison Roberts, Melissa Carrie Hooss, Xinyu Shen
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Patent number: D988742Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Magnus Olesen A/SInventor: Øivind Slaatto
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Patent number: D988996Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Danfoss Power Electronics A/SInventors: Sami Huhtakallio, Lasse Aro, Tuomas Laasanen