ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,148, issued on April 14, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Audio processing using ear-wearable device and wearable vision device" was invented by William F. Austin (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Achintya Kumar Bhowmik (Cupertino, Calif.), David Alan Fabry (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Amit Shahar (Hod HaSharon, Israel) and Majd Srour (Nesher, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing assisting system is included having a first microphone and a second microphone. The system further includes a vision device having a display device, where the display device is configured to display visual information to the user ...