US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Sept. 15 for "Antenna designs for hearing instruments" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,635, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Antenna designs for hearing instruments" was invented by Paul Anders Shriner (Hopkins, Minn.), Ezdeen Elghannai (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Carter Christensen (Prior Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna for a hearing instrument comprises: a first antenna portion comprising a first body and at least one of a first set of anterior arms extending in an anterior direction from the first body, or a first set of posterior arms extending in a posterior direction from the first body; a second antenna portion comprising a second body and...