Patents Examined by Sean O Dougherty
  • Patent number: 10292626
    Abstract: A screening device for conducting a tone audiometry includes a tone generator, an input device, and a controller device. The controller device is arranged to repeatedly perform: selecting a test stimulus from a group of test stimuli; applying the selected test stimulus to a test person; receiving via the input device from the test person a response indicating which test stimulus was heard by the test person; and adjusting an intensity according to the received response for selecting a next test stimulus. The group of test stimuli includes (i) no tone at all, (ii) a single tone with a first frequency and a first given intensity, and (iii) a multitude of tones of a second frequency and a second given intensity. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency and the multitude of tones have a duration shorter than the duration of the single tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JACOTI BVBA
    Inventor: Karin Coninx-Wittgens