US 12,403,281 B2
Bone-conductive sound therapy device and method
Tina S. Kramer, Columbus, IN (US); Kenneth L. Kramer, Columbus, IN (US); and Thomas Walker, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to SIMPLE LEARNING, LLC, Columbus, IN (US)
Filed by Simple Learning, LLC, Columbus, IN (US)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,646.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,805, filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0393916 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 21/00 (2006.01); A61M 21/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 9/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 21/00 (2013.01) [H04R 1/025 (2013.01); H04R 1/026 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2013.01); A61M 2021/0027 (2013.01); A61M 21/02 (2013.01); A61M 2209/088 (2013.01); H04R 9/06 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wearable sound therapy device comprising:
a housing having a first housing half and a second housing half attached to the first housing half and together forming a housing cavity;
a loop cord coupled to the housing for supporting the sound therapy device from the neck of a user upon a torso of the user; and
audio electronics resident in the housing, the audio electronics including:
a bone-conduction transducer in contact with the housing;
an audio file storage medium storing an audio file;
a power supply; and
a transducer control unit structured to energize the bone-conduction transducer based on the stored audio file
wherein the first housing half includes a centrally located transducer holder, and the bone-conduction transducer is seated in the centrally located transducer holder.