ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,291, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Remote-control module for an ear-wearable device" was invented by Sidney A. Higgins (Maple Grove, Minn.), Kyle Olson (St. Louis Park, Minn.) and Andy S. Lin (Chanhassen, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to ear-wearable devices. In an embodiment, a system is included having an ear-wearable device having a speaker, a microphone, a first processor, a first non-transitory computer memory, and a first wireless communication device. The system can include a remote-control module having remote-control processor, a remote-c...