ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,208, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for inducing modulation of user's voice level by a hearing device" was invented by Sofie Jansen (Zurich, Switzerland), Robert Baur (Mannedorf, Switzerland), Stefan Pislak (Stafa, Switzerland) and Ullrich Sigwanz (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method includes a hearing system determining an own voice sound level representative of a sound level of a voice of a user of a hearing device, determining an environmental sound level representative of a sound level of an environment of the user while the user u...