ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,975, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Universal fragmented wideband tympanometry" was invented by Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy) and Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose various tympanometry techniques. A tympanometry curve is generated for a user based at least in part on audio data indicative of a sound absorbance associated with a middle ear (ME) system over a fragment of an evaluation time period. A curve-pressure pair including the tympanometry curve and a correlating pressure measurement i...