US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on June 23 for "Monitoring system and method of using same" (Minnesota, California, Arizona, Washington, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,018, issued on June 23, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Monitoring system and method of using same" was invented by Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Buye Xu (Sammamish, Wash.), Jason A. Galster (Studio City, Calif.), Lauren Petley (Cincinnati), Peter J. Tetrick (Chaska, Minn.), Sourav K. Bhunia (Shoreview, Minn.), Peggi S. Cross (Tucson, Ariz.) and Martin McKinney (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a monitoring system are disclosed. The monitoring system includes first and second sensors each adapted to detect a characteristic of a subject of the system and g...