US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Feb. 17 for "Physiologic sensing platform for cooperative use with an ear-wearable electronic device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,852, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Physiologic sensing platform for cooperative use with an ear-wearable electronic device" was invented by Michael Karl Sacha (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Kyle Olson (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Ryan Christensen (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Fa Wang (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Peter Flanagan (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-wearable electronic device includes a first near-field communication (NFC) device and a transfer region configured to facilitate transfer of a wearable sensor unit into an ear of a wearer or onto an outer ear of the wearer...