US Patent Issued to Sonova on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for collecting usage data of hearing devices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,645, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Method and system for collecting usage data of hearing devices" was invented by Michael von Tessin (Esslingen, Switzerland), Filip Wojcieszyn (Stafa, Switzerland), Franz Schnyder (Jona, Switzerland) and Alexander Maksyagin (Ebmatingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a hearing device with a key, which is a secret asymmetric private key or a secret shared symmetric key, and storing the key on the hearing device; logging data related to a usage of the hearing device and storing the logged usage data on the hearing device; sign...