ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,381, issued on May 26, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).
"Hearing aid device for hands free communication" was invented by Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smorum, Denmark), Jesper Jensen (Smorum, Denmark) and Jan Mark De Haan (Smorum, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention regards a hearing aid device at least one environment sound input, a wireless sound input, an output transducer, electric circuitry, a transmitter unit, and a dedicated beamformer-noise-reduction-system. The hearing aid device is configured to be worn in or at an ear of a user. The at least one environment sound input is configured to rec...