ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,180, issued on March 31.

"Programming non-bluetooth hearing aid" was invented by Richard S. Slevin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improving hearing enhancement solutions across a wide range of hearing devices, particularly for a wide-range of disparate user-provided hearing devices, including a dock having a transmissions conversion module for translating/converting Bluetooth communications from a transmitter/transceiver coupled to a configuration system to a non-Bluetooth personal audio device (e.g., a hearing aid) enabling a user to program the personal audio device with a user-deve...