ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,293, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for operating a hearing aid, and hearing aid" was invented by Claudia Pischel (Erlangen, Germany), Maja Serman (Erlangen, Germany) and Ulrich Giese (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating a hearing aid of a user. The hearing aid has an input transducer, which produces an input signal, an analysis unit identifying a current scene from the input signal, and a signal processing unit having an OV processing unit. The signal processing unit is used to process the input signal into an output signal, and in this proce...