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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Vivonics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Anna M Galea, Stow, MA (US);
Eric Louis, North Chelmsford, MA (US);
Kristen J. LeRoy, Somerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
Vivonics, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2013.01); G10K 11/178 (2013.01); H04R 25/606 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/129 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hearing protection system including a detection subsystem configured to determine bone conducted sound vibrations and one or more actuators placed proximate a predetermined location on the skull of a user configured to generate cancellation vibrations out of phase with the bone conducted sound vibrations to mitigate the effect of bone conducted sound vibrations on the middle and/or inner ear of a user.