Patents Assigned to GN HEARING A/S
  • Patent number: 12382231
    Abstract: Described is a hearing device, wherein the engine module is enfolded in an elastic sealing sleeve. The sealing sleeve is configured to fit tightly on the engine module and comprises a sleeve opening configured for allowing the engine module to pass through during assembly or disassembly of the hearing device, and a rigid housing shell covers at least part of the elastic sealing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Laurids Egedal Kirchhoff
  • Patent number: 12375861
    Abstract: A device and method for improving hearing devices by using computer recognition of words and substituting either computer generated words or pre-recorded words in streaming conversation received from a distant speaker. The system may operate in multiple modes such as a first mode being amplification and conditioning of the voice sounds; a second mode having said microphone pickup up the voice sounds from a speaker, a processor configured to convert voice sounds to discrete words corresponding to words spoken by said speaker, generating a synthesized voice speaking said words and outputting said synthesized voice to said sound reproducing element, which is hearable by the user. Other modes include translation of foreign languages into a user's ear and using a heads up display to project the text version of words which the computer had deciphered or translated. The system may be triggered by eye moment, spoken command, hand movement or similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Michael B. Lasky
  • Patent number: 12369002
    Abstract: An earpiece for a hearing device, includes: an earpiece housing comprising an ear canal portion and an outer ear portion, the ear canal portion extending along an ear canal axis for positioning in an ear canal of a user, the ear canal portion having a first end; a first microphone for detecting ambient sound via a first input port in the earpiece housing; a second microphone; and a receiver for providing an audio output signal to the ear canal when the earpiece is inserted in an ear of the user; wherein the first microphone is arranged at a first distance from the first input port, wherein the first distance is at least 2 mm when measured parallel to a main plane having a main plane normal parallel to a main axis, the main axis forming a first main angle that is less than 30 degrees with the ear canal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Erik Alan Lindberg
  • Patent number: 12363544
    Abstract: A method, performed by a user application, of creating a trusted bond between a hearing device and the user application is disclosed, wherein the method comprises obtaining first authentication material; transmitting a first authentication request comprising first authentication data to the hearing device; receiving a first authentication response comprising a sound signal from the hearing device; deriving second authentication material based on the sound signal; determining second authentication data based on the second authentication material; transmitting a second authentication request comprising the second authentication data to the hearing device; receiving a second authentication response comprising an authentication key identifier from the hearing device; storing an authentication key and the authentication key identifier, wherein the authentication key is based on the first authentication material; and connecting the user application to the hearing device using the authentication key and the authenti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Allan Munk Vendelbo, Brian Dam Pedersen
  • Patent number: 12357184
    Abstract: A method of operating a hearing system comprising a first hearing device and a second hearing device, includes: obtaining sensor data, the sensor data comprising first sensor data representing first physiological data and second sensor data representing second physiological data, where the first sensor data comprises or is indicative of first sensor signal from the first hearing device configured to be arranged at a first ear of a user, and the second sensor data comprises or is indicative of second sensor signal from the second hearing device configured to be arranged at a second ear of the user; comparing the first sensor data and the second sensor data; determining a first parameter based on a result from the act of comparing the first sensor data and the second sensor data; and outputting a first output signal indicative of the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Tomasz Goldman
  • Patent number: 12361182
    Abstract: A method of designing an earpiece for a user, includes: obtaining 3D scan data of an ear; obtaining a model earpiece with an earpiece configuration based on the 3D scan data; determining coupling data indicative of a coupling of the model earpiece, the coupling data including misfit data including one or more misfit parameters; evaluating the earpiece configuration based on the misfit data; and determining information regarding a personalized earpiece based on a result from the act of evaluating the earpiece configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Vincent Maye
  • Patent number: 12356149
    Abstract: A computing device includes: an input configured to be coupled to, or carried by, a user of a hearing device, the hearing device configured to receive sound from an environment defined by an acoustic scene; one or more memory units; and one or more processing units; wherein the one or more sensors are configured to measure a stress parameter related to stress of the user, the stress parameter being related to the acoustic scene; wherein the computing device is configured to obtain the measured stress parameter; and wherein the one or more processing units of the computing device comprise a program configured to determine an indication of stress of the user based on at least the stress parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Jesper Bünsow Boldt
  • Patent number: 12340789
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hearing apparatus comprising: a bone conduction sensor configured to convert bone vibrations of voice sound information into a bone conduction signal; a signal processing unit configured to implement a synthetic speech generation process, the synthetic speech generation process implementing a speech model; wherein the synthetic speech generation process receives the bone conduction signal as a control input and outputs a synthetic speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Andreas Tiefenau, Brian Dam Pedersen, Antonie Johannes Hendrikse, Anuj Dev
  • Patent number: 12317035
    Abstract: An earpiece includes: a first end; a second end opposite from the first end; a first channel extending from a first location that is closer to the first end than to the second end, to a second location that is closer to the second end than to the first end; and a first diaphragm, wherein the first diaphragm has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first surface of the diaphragm configured to be in fluid communication with a lumen in the first channel, wherein the first diaphragm extends in a direction that is parallel to, or that forms an acute angle with, a longitudinal axis of the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Jonas Raun Hansen, Jonathan Boley
  • Patent number: 12238482
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hearing device, e.g., a hearing aid, wherein open-cell foam is compressed between a receiver and a second section, e.g., receiver chamber, of the hearing device, a method for providing such hearing device, and a method for identifying a desired property of such open-cell foam of such hearing device. The hearing device comprises a first section comprising the open-cell foam being compressed, such that the open-cell foam has at least a strain value of a first point of an elastic modulus-strain curve of the open-cell foam and at most the strain value of a third point of the elastic modulus-strain curve, and such that the receiver is connected to the second section via the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Yu Luan, Anders Hjermø Michaelsen, Gojko Obradovic
  • Patent number: 12236680
    Abstract: A digital assistance for assisting a wearer of a hearing device to correctly arrange the hearing device with respect to an ear of the wearer, includes: a control configured to enable a preview of a first image to be displayed, wherein the first image is generated by a camera; wherein the control is also configured to enable a capturing of the first image, the first image showing at least the ear of the wearer with the hearing device arranged in and/or at the ear of the wearer; and wherein the digital assistance also comprises a comparator configured to perform a comparison between (1) the first image showing the at least the ear of the wearer with the hearing device and (2) a reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Qi Yang, Gregory B. Olsen, Jeffrey Todd Schlensker, Viktor A. Mateevitsi
  • Patent number: 12231886
    Abstract: A hearing device and a method for operating a hearing device is disclosed, hearing device comprising a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; an interface; and a memory unit, wherein the memory unit has stored therein a first primary certificate comprising a first primary hearing device identifier; a second primary certificate comprising a second primary hearing device identifier; and customer data indicative of the hearing device being configured to operate as a customer hearing device, wherein the processing unit is configured to determine if the hearing device is configured to operate as a customer hearing device based on the customer data; and in accordance with a determination that the hearing device is configured to operate as a customer hearing device, operate the hearing device according to the second primary certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Allan Munk Vendelbo
  • Patent number: 12231858
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for a hearing system. A method, performed by a hearing device of a hearing system comprising a hearing device system and an external device, the hearing device system comprising the hearing device and a user accessory device with a user application installed thereon is disclosed, the method comprising receiving, from the user accessory device, secure hearing system data, the secure hearing system data comprising a data type identifier; determining a data type of the secure hearing system data based on the data type identifier; determining hearing system data by applying a security scheme to the secure hearing system data based on the data type; and operating the hearing device according to the hearing system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Allan Munk Vendelbo
  • Patent number: 12225356
    Abstract: Disclosed is a connector for providing sound into an ear canal of a user. The connector is configured to connect a behind-the-ear, BTE, component of a hearing device to an ITE component of the hearing device. The connector comprises a first portion configured to be connected to the ITE component of the hearing device and configured to be at least partly inserted into an ear canal of the user. The first portion is configured to extend at least partly in the ear canal of the user when the connector is in its intended position at the ear of the user. The connector further comprises at least one identifiable marker being a user guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Qi Yang, Erin O'Neill, Christian Grønnegaard, Michalis Papakostas
  • Patent number: 12223240
    Abstract: A method of predictive design of an earpiece for a user, includes: obtaining 3D scan data of an ear; obtaining a model earpiece with an earpiece configuration based on an analysis of the 3D scan data; determining coupling data indicative of a coupling of the model earpiece; evaluating the earpiece configuration based on the coupling data; and providing a personalized earpiece based on an output of the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Vidya Krull
  • Patent number: 12225355
    Abstract: A bilateral hearing device system includes a hearing device. The hearing device includes a first input transducer configured for providing a first electric input signal, a second input transducer configured for providing a second electric input signal, a voice detector module configured to detect own voice of a user, the voice detector comprising a first band-pass filter configured for band-pass filtering the first electric input signal and a second band-pass filter configured for band-pass filtering the second electric input signal. The hearing device comprises a processing unit configured to provide a first electric output signal based on the first and second electric input signals; and an output transducer configured to provide an acoustic output signal, wherein the voice detector module is configured for notifying a detection of the own voice to the processing unit if one or more detection criteria are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Rob De Vries, Changxue Ma, Srdjan Petrovic
  • Patent number: 12219326
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Nielsen, Søren Davids, Thomas John Chappell
  • Patent number: D1075016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Henrik Hetz Christiansen
  • Patent number: D1075017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Henrik Hetz Christiansen
  • Patent number: D1079012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventor: Henrik Hetz Christiansen