US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on June 23 for "Ear-worn devices for tracking exposure to hearing degrading conditions" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,008, issued on June 23, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-worn devices for tracking exposure to hearing degrading conditions" was invented by Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to ear-worn devices that can track exposure to hearing degrading conditions and/or provide notifications or warnings regarding the same. In an embodiment, an ear-worn device is included having a control circuit, a microphone in electrical communication with the control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with th...