ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,796, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Method of optimizing audio processing in a hearing device" was invented by Ralph Peter Derleth (Hinwil, Switzerland) and Gilles Courtois (Uerikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method of optimizing audio processing in a hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of a user, the method comprising receiving an input audio signal; processing the input audio signal by a plurality of audio processing algorithms executed in a sequence and/or in parallel to generate a processed audio signal; and outputting, by an output tr...