US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on July 14 for "Ear-worn devices for communication with medical devices" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,056, issued on July 14, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-worn devices for communication with medical devices" was invented by Achintya Kumar Bhowmik (Cupertino, Calif.) and Gregory John Haubrich (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to medical device systems including ear-worn devices. In an embodiment, a medical device system includes an ear-worn device including a control circuit, a microphone in electrical communication with the control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with the control circuit, and a powe...