US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on March 17 for "Hearing assistance devices with control of other devices" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,253, issued on March 17, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing assistance devices with control of other devices" was invented by Dustin Degen (Waconia, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to hearing assistance devices that can control other devices based on hearing assistance device events and/or status. In an embodiment, a hearing assistance system includes a hearing assistance device that can include a control circuit, a microphone in electrical communication with the control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with t...