US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on June 16 for "Responding to and assisting during medical emergency event using data from ear-wearable devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,711, issued on June 16, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Responding to and assisting during medical emergency event using data from ear-wearable devices" was invented by Paul Anders Shriner (Hopkins, Minn.) and Gregory John Haubrich (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system makes a first preliminary determination that a user of an ear-wearable device is experiencing a potential medical event based on first signals generated by first sensors. The computing system may make a second preliminary determination that the user is experiencing the potential medical event based on a use...