ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,380, issued on May 26, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Antenna used in conjunction with the conductors for an audio transducer" was invented by Jeffrey Paul Solum (Greenwood, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing assistance device to provide sound to the ear of a user, the device comprising a housing, hearing assistance electronics enclosed in the housing, an acoustic transducer adapted to be worn in the ear, a cable assembly adapted to connect the acoustic transducer to the hearing assistance electronics, a wireless communications receiver connected to the hearing assistance electronics, and...