US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on March 3 for "Curved acoustic path for hearing instruments" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,339, issued on March 3, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Curved acoustic path for hearing instruments" was invented by Ganesh Borra (Plymouth, Minn.), Babak Talebanpour (Plymouth, Minn.), Ryan Owens (Hopkins, Minn.) and Gregory John Haubrich (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing instrument comprises: a microphone; a housing that defines an opening that leads to the microphone; a button disposed on the housing; and a ring member configured to be disposed within a recess defined in the housing and to define a perimeter around the button, wherein: the ring member defining an acoustic ...