ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,555, issued on May 20, was assigned to Examinetics Inc. (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Systems and methods for conducting and validating an audiometric test" was invented by Matthew Peter Kafer (Belton, Mo.), Cassandra Lynn Ford (Kansas City, Mo.) and Edward Henry Stratemeier IV (Prairie Village, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for conducting an audiometric test using an audiometer includes confirming that a room in which the audiometric test is to be administered has a set of background sound pressure levels that conform to a predetermined standard; determining that the audiometer has been calibrated at le...