ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,255, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mimi Hearing Technologies GmbH (Berlin).

"Systems and methods for assessing hearing health based on perceptual processing" was invented by Nicholas R. Clark (Royston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for audio processing. For instance, a process can include obtaining a first set of digital signal processing (DSP) parameters associated with a first hearing profile and a second set of DSP parameters associated with a second hearing profile different than the first hearing profile. One or more differentially processed audio samples can be output, each includi...