US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on May 26 for "Ear-wearable device modeling" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,484, issued on May 26, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-wearable device modeling" was invented by Amit Shahar (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Lior Weizman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Deepak Kadetotad (Tempe, Ariz.), Jinjun Xiao (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Nitzan Bornstein (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining ear modeling data, wherein the ear modeling data includes a 3D model of an ear canal; applying a shell generation to generate a shell shape based on the ear modeling data, wherein the shell-generation model is a machine learning model and the shell shape is a 3D representat...