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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2003
Peter Zoth, Gilching, DE;
Thomas Janssen, Tuntenhausen, DE;
Peter Zoth, Gilching, DE;
Thomas Janssen, Tuntenhausen, DE;
NATUS Medical, Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and device for automatically assessing loss of hearing sensitivity and compression (recruitment) with user defined frequency resolution by means of extrapolated DPOAE I/O functions and ABRs as well as for automatically fitting hearing aids without any cooperation of the subject tested using a device having a display screen attached to a handheld device generating and collecting otoacoustic emission signals and brain stem response signals into a programmed with a clinical audiogram with fitting parameters for hearing aids calculated on the basis of assessed hearing threshold and compression and identifying the type of hearing required for the individual.