ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,278, issued on July 14, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Inverted F-shaped antenna for hearing instruments" was invented by Yali Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Joseph Matthias Reis Jr. (Minneapolis) and Gregory John Haubrich (Champlin, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna for a hearing instrument comprises an antenna element that is fed at an intermediate point between a first end of the antenna element and a second end of the antenna element. The antenna element has a J-shaped surface. The antenna also includes a ground plane element, a dielectric structure, and a shorting structure. The gro...