ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,203, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Talker-specific tuning of hearing assistance device" was invented by Graham Bradley Davis (Seattle), Ashwin Pillay (Pittsburgh), Shankar Thagadur Shivappa (San Diego) and Arvind Krishna Sridhar (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory configured to store audio data and one or more processors configured to obtain audio data for playout to a user and obtain hearing assistance settings that are based on voice characteristics of a target talker associated with the audio data and based on hearing characteristics of the user. The one or more p...