Patents by Inventor Michele Mazzucchi

Michele Mazzucchi 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).

  • Hearing assistance device and method with automatic security control
    Patent number: 10506351
    Abstract: There is provided a hearing assistance device to be worn by a user, comprising: a microphone arrangement (12) for capturing audio signals from ambient sound, an audio signal processing unit (14) for processing the captured audio signals, and an ear-level output transducer (16) for stimulating the user's hearing according to the processed audio signals, at least one wireless interface (18, 20, 42, 44) for signal reception from an external device (11, 40), a context detection unit (46) for determining, by regularly analyzing signals received via the at least one wireless interface, present values of a set of context parameters, the context parameters being indicative of the present location of the hearing assistance device (10), with the context detection unit being configured to select, based on the determined location, one location context out of a plurality of location contexts as the presently valid location context, and a security control unit (48) for controlling security aspects of the hearing assistance
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Michele Mazzucchi, Pascal Magnenat
  • Hearing Assistance Device and Method with Automatic Security Control
    Publication number: 20190090071
    Abstract: There is provided a hearing assistance device to be worn by a user, comprising: a microphone arrangement (12) for capturing audio signals from ambient sound, an audio signal processing unit (14) for processing the captured audio signals, and an ear-level output transducer (16) for stimulating the user's hearing according to the processed audio signals, at least one wireless interface (18, 20, 42, 44) for signal reception from an external device (11, 40), a context detection unit (46) for determining, by regularly analyzing signals received via the at least one wireless interface, present values of a set of context parameters, the context parameters being indicative of the present location of the hearing assistance device (10), with the context detection unit being configured to select, based on the determined location, one location context out of a plurality of location contexts as the presently valid location context, and a security control unit (48) for controlling security aspects of the hearing assistance
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Michele Mazzucchi, Pascal Magnenat