US Patent Issued to Sonova on Aug. 11 for "Data encryption for a hearing device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,751, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Data encryption for a hearing device" was invented by Nadim El Guindi (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Anne Thielen (Stafa, Switzerland), Andreas Breitenmoser (Zurich), Harald Krueger (Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland) and Alexander Maksyagin (Ebmatingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for sharing data generated by a hearing device, comprising providing an encryption key in the hearing device; providing a decryption key in an external entity separate from the hearing device; generating data by a sensor of the hearing device, enc...