US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on June 16 for "Use of hearing instrument telecoils to determine contextual information, activities, or modified microphone signals" (Maryland, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,675, issued on June 16, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Use of hearing instrument telecoils to determine contextual information, activities, or modified microphone signals" was invented by Kenneth Jensen (Brunswick, Md.), Justin Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Thomas Olai Monsen (Chaska, Minn.) and Eric George (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a method comprising: obtaining, by a processing system that includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry, a signal from a magnetic sensor of a hearing instrument; determining, by the processing system, a c...