US Patent Issued to Bose on May 26 for "Wearable hearing assist device with sound pressure level shifting" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,378, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Wearable hearing assist device with sound pressure level shifting" was invented by Andrew Todd Sabin (Chicago), Daniel M. Gauger Jr. (Berlin, Mass.), Andrew Jackson Stockton X (Dorchester, Mass.) and Darrin Kiyoshi Reed (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include hearing assist devices and systems for processing audio signals. In particular implementations, a process includes receiving an input signal via a microphone; performing a sound pressure level (SPL) shift that decreases a gain of the input signal to generate a gain re...