ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,478, issued on March 31, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Antenna designs for hearing instruments" was invented by Ezdeen Elghannai (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Casey Murray (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Ganesh Borra (Plymouth, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing instrument comprises a housing that defines a cavity; a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the cavity; an antenna that comprises an internal portion and an external portion, wherein a first location on the internal portion of the antenna is disposed within the cavity and is physically connected to the PCB and a different second loc...