US Patent Issued to Sonova on April 14 for "Hearing device with a bleeding circuit for delivering messages to a charging device" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,130, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sonova AG (Stafa, Switzerland).

"Hearing device with a bleeding circuit for delivering messages to a charging device" was invented by Jaewoo Kim (Waterloo, Canada), Aistis Januszko (Kitchener, Canada) and Isaac Hamp (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of a hearing device and a charging device that sends a message via electrical pulses from a bleeding circuit to the hearing device. The electrical pulses may communicate information about a battery state of charge or the presence of a fault in the charging of the hearing device. The charging device may, based on the hearin...