Patents by Inventor Michael James Schmitz

Michael James Schmitz 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).

  • Battery life estimation for hearing instruments
    Patent number: 11528566
    Abstract: A system may obtain data related to hearing instruments, such as data indicating answers of a user to a questionnaire or historical usage data of the hearing instruments. For each respective feature of one or more features, the system may determine a feature duty cycle corresponding to an amount of time during a period in which the respective feature is anticipated to be active based on the data related to the hearing instruments. The system may further determine an energy cost for the respective feature at least based on the respective feature duty cycle for the respective feature and a power consumption rate of the respective feature. The system may calculate a battery life of one or more batteries in the hearing instruments at least based on the energy costs for each feature of the one or more features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Weispfenning, Ramsey Albert Statz, Michael James Schmitz, Seyed Alireza Pourbakhsh, Charles William Steidl, Jeffrey Raymond Brooker
  • BATTERY LIFE ESTIMATION FOR HEARING INSTRUMENTS
    Publication number: 20210306764
    Abstract: A system may obtain data related to hearing instruments, such as data indicating answers of a user to a questionnaire or historical usage data of the hearing instruments. For each respective feature of one or more features, the system may determine a feature duty cycle corresponding to an amount of time during a period in which the respective feature is anticipated to be active based on the data related to the hearing instruments. The system may further determine an energy cost for the respective feature at least based on the respective feature duty cycle for the respective feature and a power consumption rate of the respective feature. The system may calculate a battery life of one or more batteries in the hearing instruments at least based on the energy costs for each feature of the one or more features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Michael James Weispfenning, Ramsey Albert Statz, Michael James Schmitz, Seyed Alireza Pourbakhsh, Charles William Steidl, Jeffrey Raymond Brooker