US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on July 14 for "Ear-wearable devices for control of other devices and related methods" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,280, issued on July 14, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-wearable devices for control of other devices and related methods" was invented by Achintya Kumar Bhowmik (Cupertino, Calif.), Gregory John Haubrich (Champlin, Minn.) and Paul Shriner (Hopkins, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to ear-wearable devices that can be used to control other device and related methods. In a first aspect, an ear-wearable device is included having a control circuit, a wireless communications circuit, a microphone, and a motion sensor. The ear-wearable device is configured to receive an in...