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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Matthijs P. Smits, Woodside, CA (US);
Christophe M. Coppin, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Assignee:
Natus Medical, Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/04 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for evaluation of hearing loss is disclosed. The apparatus and method use evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) to determine if the subject is able to hear repeatedly administered click stimuli. In order to expedite evaluation, the present invention uses normative data to accurately predict when a subject is likely to fail the test, so that evaluation will not needlessly continue for a subject who is very unlikely to pass.