US Patent Issued to Oticon on July 28 for "Hearing aid and distance-specific amplifier" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,037, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing aid and distance-specific amplifier" was invented by Caroline Ekelund (Smorum, Denmark), Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smorum, Denmark), Jesper Jensen (Smorum, Denmark) and Claus Forup Corlin Jespersgaard (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a hearing aid. The hearing aid includes an input unit configured to convert a sound in an environment of the hearing aid to at least one electrical input signal representative of the sound. The hearing aid includes a signal processor. The signal processor is configured to dete...