ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,413, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Speaker system for an in-the-ear hearing device" was invented by Thilo Von Mansberg (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loudspeaker system for a hearing device to be worn in the ear has a loudspeaker with a housing, which has a sound exit opening that is arranged in a coupling surface of the housing. The loudspeaker system additionally has an antenna body, which has a carrier plate formed with a sound passage opening, a carrier sleeve rigidly connected to the carrier plate and fluidically connected to its sound passage opening, and an antenna coi...