ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,292, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Hearing instrument processing mode selection" was invented by Justin Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Kenneth Jensen (Brunswick, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including one or more hearing instruments configured to be worn in, on, or about an ear of a user. The system is configured to: determine that the user may prefer either of a first or a second processing mode; apply the first processing mode and the second processing mode to generate a first output audio signal and a second output audio signal; cause one or more hearing in...