ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,869, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Motion data based signal processing" was invented by Sudershan Yalgalwadi Sreepadarao (Smorum, Denmark), Anders Meng (Smorum, Denmark), Mojtaba Farmani (Smorum, Denmark), Martin Kuriger (Fribourg, Switzerland), Mikkel Gronbech (Smorum, Denmark) and Meng Guo (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid includes an input unit, an output unit, a signal processing unit connected to said input unit and output unit, where the input unit, the signal processing unit and the output unit are forming part of a forward path of the hearing aid, where the signa...