Patents by Inventor Zachary Pope

Zachary Pope 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).

  • Synchronizing asynchronous dual-stack radio events for hearing device applications
    Patent number: 10624032
    Abstract: A battery-powered mobile hearing assist device allows concurrent wireless transception of control data via standard Bluetooth low energy (“BLE”), such as a smartphone, and proprietary audio streaming (“PAS”) from a second device such as a wireless audio streaming accessory. Power savings are achieved particularly in situations where the hearing device is searching for the PAS device. Instead of performing PAS search events as a separate wireless activity from the BLE advertising or connection events, including waking and ramping up for each of the BLE and PAS protocols, PAS search events are combined into the BLE advertising or connection events before returning to the sleep mode in each connection interval, eliminating duplicative processor steps, ramp up and/or ramp down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: IntriCon Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Seel, Zachary Pope
  • Synchronizing Asynchronous Dual-Stack Radio Events For Hearing Device Applications
    Publication number: 20190191378
    Abstract: A battery-powered mobile hearing assist device allows concurrent wireless transception of control data via standard Bluetooth low energy (“BLE”), such as a smartphone, and proprietary audio streaming (“PAS”) from a second device such as a wireless audio streaming accessory. Power savings are achieved particularly in situations where the hearing device is searching for the PAS device. Instead of performing PAS search events as a separate wireless activity from the BLE advertising or connection events, including waking and ramping up for each of the BLE and PAS protocols, PAS search events are combined into the BLE advertising or connection events before returning to the sleep mode in each connection interval, eliminating duplicative processor steps, ramp up and/or ramp down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Seel, Zachary Pope