ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,382, issued on May 26, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method for operating a hearing device and hearing device" was invented by Julius Krieg (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a hearing device having a hearing aid and an electronic device coupled thereto for signal transmission. The hearing aid has tap detection for detecting a tapping movement of a hearing aid user on a hearing aid housing. The tap detection has a stored detection threshold, and contact with the hearing aid housing is detected as a tapping movement if the detection threshold is reached or exceeded. The electronic dev...