ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,371, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Hearing instrument and associated binaural hearing system" was invented by Tobias Merkl (Erlangen, Germany) and Pascal Schreiber (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing instrument includes a housing wearable in an ear of a user and having a concha portion, a thin canal portion protruding from the concha portion, a receiver and a mechanically rigidly connected electronics unit including a battery, a signal processor and two microphones. The electronics unit is accommodated in the concha portion such that, in the intended wearing position of the ...