ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,676, issued on June 16, was assigned to GN HEARING A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Hearing device and method of updating a hearing device" was invented by Brian Dam Pedersen (Ringsted, Denmark) and Allan Munk Vendelbo (Valby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device includes: a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; a memory unit; and an interface; wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain one or more security settings via the interface, the one or more security settings comprising a hearing device key identifier, verify the one or more security settings, and upda...