ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,860, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for operating a hearing device, hearing device and computer program product" was invented by Sascha Bilert (Erlangen, Germany), Eghart Fischer (Erlangen, Germany), Jens Hain (Erlangen, Germany), Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi (Erlangen, Germany) and Cecil Wilson (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hearing device having an input transducer, a signal processing device and an output transducer includes using the input transducer to generate an input signal. The signal processing device has a quality checking unit used to take th...