ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,028, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Binaural hearing system and method for operating a binaural hearing system" was invented by Cecil Wilson (Erlangen, Germany) and Jurek Follmer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a binaural hearing system having first and second hearing instruments includes using respective electroacoustic first and second input transducers of the first and second hearing instruments to generate first and second input signals from ambient sound. The first and second input signals are used to ascertain respective first and second instantaneous g...