ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,181, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sonova AG (Stafa, Switzerland).

"Hearing device arrangement and method for audio signal processing" was invented by Markus Hofbauer (Hombrechtikon, Switzerland), Andreas Breitenmoser (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Claudio Santelli (Stafa, Switzerland), Paul Wagner (Portland, Ore.), Sebastian Kroedel (Erlenbach, Switzerland), Manon Barbier (Soultzmatt, France) and Manuela Feilner (Egg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device arrangement includes two hearing devices which are connected to each other in a data transmitting manner. Each hearing device includes an audio input unit fo...