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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2023
Lightspeed Aviation, Inc., Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Brian David Frost, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Allan Schrader, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
LIGHTSPEED AVIATION, INC., Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Abstract
A system and method for testing effectiveness of in-the-ear (ITE) hearing protection devices (HPD) while inserted in a user's ears include a headset having circumaural earcups positionable over the user's ears and programmed to sequentially generate sound at a plurality of frequencies and store the user's hearing threshold at each frequency. The user's values are compared to associated reference values for the ITE hearing protection devices and a processor generates an audio, visual, and/or haptic signal indicative of the ITE HPD effectiveness based on the comparisons. The headset may be used as a secondary or supplemental HPD in combination with the ITE devices. The stored user values at each frequency may be used to automatically compensate ambient sounds for the response of the ITE HPDs and any pre-existing user hearing deficiencies to improve speech intelligibility and situational awareness while wearing the devices.