US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Feb. 10 for "Hearing device with motion sensor used to detect feedback path instability" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,908, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing device with motion sensor used to detect feedback path instability" was invented by Sina Miran (Silver Spring, Md.), Tao Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Henning Schepker (Oldenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio input signal is digitized via circuitry of an ear-wearable device. An adaptive feedback canceller has an adaptive filter producing an output that is inserted into the digitized audio input signal to cancel feedback. A motion detector provides a motion signal indicative of motion of the car-wearable device. A pro...