US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Aug. 4 for "Hearing device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,350, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing device" was invented by Sidney A. Higgins (Maple Grove, Minn.) and David Tourtelotte (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a hearing device and a system including such device are disclosed. The hearing device includes an enclosure having a front housing and a rear housing, and an isolator disposed between the front housing and the rear housing, where the isolator includes a body and a sleeve disposed on a side surface of the body. A second end of the front housing and a second end of the rear housing ar...