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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2021
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Michael James Weispfenning, Shakopee, MN (US);
Ramsey Albert Statz, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael James Schmitz, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Seyed Alireza Pourbakhsh, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Charles William Steidl, Edina, MN (US);
Jeffrey Raymond Brooker, Shoreview, MN (US);
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
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.