Patents by Inventor MARCO STEFFEN

MARCO STEFFEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240007805
    Abstract: An electronics module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the auditory canal has a rechargeable battery, a mechanical holder, in which the rechargeable battery is received in the intended assembly state of the electronics module, a circuit carrier, and a chipset arranged on the circuit carrier. The circuit carrier is band-shaped and in the intended assembly state is laid in sections and bent around the mechanical holder. There is also described a hearing instrument module and a complete hearing instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Thilo Von Mansberg, Marco Steffen, Alexander Menke
  • Publication number: 20240007806
    Abstract: An electronic module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the ear canal has a rechargeable battery, a circuit carrier, and a chipset arranged on the circuit carrier and forming an audio processor, and power management electronics. The circuit carrier is strip-shaped and, in the intended assembly state, is wrapped, in sections and bent, around the rechargeable battery in such a way that the rechargeable battery is at least partially arranged between the audio processor and the power management electronics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Thilo Von Mansberg, Marco Steffen, Alexander Menke
  • Publication number: 20220411455
    Abstract: Suggested is method for producing galactooligosaccharides, comprising the following steps: (i) Providing an aqueous milk sugar solution; (ii) Sterilising the milk sugar solution; (iii) Performing a transgalactosilation of the milk sugars present in the sterilised milk sugar solution of step (ii) by adding at least one beta-galactosidase within its optimum temperature and pH value intervals for a period of at least 30 minutes, obtaining a reaction mixture; (iv) Inhibiting the enzyme mass in the reaction mixture of step (iii), and (v) Confectioning the reaction mixture of step (iv), Wherein (a) The enzyme mass is wholly or partly inhibited by setting a pH value outside the activity optimum of the enzymes; (b) The reaction mixture, together with the inhibited enzyme mass, is subjected to filtration, obtaining a retentate (R1) and a permeate (P1); (c) The inhibited amount of enzymes is separated as a retentate (R1) and is fed back to step (iii); and (d) The permeate (P2) containing the galactooligosaccharides
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: SVEN-RAINER DÖRING, Marco STEFFENS
  • Patent number: 10506352
    Abstract: A microphone unit includes a housing having a first main surface and a second main surface disposed opposite each other. The housing surrounds an inner chamber which includes a resonance chamber. The first main surface includes a concave indentation facing toward the inner chamber. A hearing aid, including a substantially cylindrical battery and a microphone unit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Marco Steffen, Thomas Naether
  • Publication number: 20180220244
    Abstract: A microphone unit includes a housing having a first main surface and a second main surface disposed opposite each other. The housing surrounds an inner chamber which includes a resonance chamber. The first main surface includes a concave indentation facing toward the inner chamber. A hearing aid, including a substantially cylindrical battery and a microphone unit is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: MARCO STEFFEN, THOMAS NAETHER