Natus Medical Inc. Joins As New ASA Standards Member

We’re very excited to announce Natus Medical Incorporated (Natus) has joined ASA Standards as a new organizational member. Natus, based in Middleton, WI, with offices across the globe, offers medical equipment, software, supplies and services for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of impairments and disorders affecting the brain, neural pathways and eight sensory nervous systems. Natus’s comprehensive suite of healthcare-based products and services includes hearing assessment and screening, plus modular hearing aid fitting systems. Natus’s Dave Carpenter, as part of the company’s ASA Standards membership, will serve on ASC S3, Bioacoustics, with William J. Murphy as Chair and with Todd A. Ricketts as Vice Chair. Mr. Carpenter also will serve […]

Threshold Acoustics’ Brandon Cudequest to Serve as New Chair of ASA Standards S12 Committee Working Group 18

We’re very excited to announce Brandon W. Cudequest, Senior Consultant with Threshold Acoustics (an ASA Standards Member organization), has agreed to serve as the new Chair of ASA Standards Working Group (WG) 18 with our ASC S12 Committee (Noise). Under Brandon’s leadership, WG18’s continued scope is to develop a method for rating the noise encountered in various types of rooms in terms of its effect upon people by means of: a weighting network and a computational procedure to account for temporal pattern of the noise and the need for tone correction as appropriate. WG18 also is responsible for this published ASA standard: ASA/ANSI S12.2-2019 – Criteria for Evaluating Room Noise […]