US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on March 3 for "Mechanism for external multi-functional cable retention for a hearing device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,326, issued on March 3, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Mechanism for external multi-functional cable retention for a hearing device" was invented by Ganesh Borra (Plymouth, Minn.), Ryan Owens (Hopkins, Minn.), Joshua Elliot Braband (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Ezdeen Elghannai (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Babak Talebanpour (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device configured to be worn in an ear of a wearer includes a first housing component defining a recess, a second housing component configured to attach to the first housing component to define an enclosure, and a conductor, and a m...