US Patent Issued to Sonova on July 21 for "Gait stabilizing with hearing device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,837, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Gait stabilizing with hearing device" was invented by Hans-Ueli Roeck (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland), Niklas Ignasiak (Zurich, Switzerland) and Manuela Feilner (Egg b. Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stabilizing a gait of a user wearing a hearing device comprises: sensing an audio signal with a microphone of the hearing device; modifying the audio signal with the hearing device into a modified audio signal; sensing a movement signal of the user with a movement sensor of the hearing device; determining a step signal indicative of a ...