ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,247, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Facilitating hearing device fitting" was invented by Charlotte Vercammen (London), Doris Zahnd (Baretswil, Switzerland) and Sebastian Griepentrog (Staefa, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing processed sound to a user wearing a hearing device, wherein the hearing device receives environmental sound from an environment of the user, processes the environmental sound with a fitting into the processed sound and outputs the processed sound to the user, wherein the fitting comprises sound processing parameters, which are adapted to...