ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,642, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Telecoil tick-artifact mitigation for binaural hearing instruments" was invented by Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Thomas O. Monsen (Carver, Minn.) and Mohammad Reza Movahedi (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for mitigating interference within a telecoil signal for hearing devices. A system includes a first hearing device and a second hearing device. The first hearing device includes a magnetic sensor configured to sense an inductive signal, a first wireless ...