US Patent Issued to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home on Sept. 8 for "Predicting real-ear-to-coupler differences based on clinical immittance measures of the middle ear" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,761, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (Omaha, Neb.).

"Predicting real-ear-to-coupler differences based on clinical immittance measures of the middle ear" was invented by Ryan McCreery (Omaha, Neb.), Gabrielle Merchant (Omaha, Neb.) and Jeff Crukley (Milton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pediatric hearing-aid verification relies on probe microphone measures of output from the ear canal or in a coupler with the child's real-ear-to-coupler difference (RECD). These measures cannot always be completed in children, leading to inaccuracies in fitting when average RECD values are used instead. Audiologi...