US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 12 for "Real-time Multirate Multiband Amplification for hearing aids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,936, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Real-time Multirate Multiband Amplification for hearing aids" was invented by Harinath Garudadri (La Jolla, Calif.), Alice Sokolova (La Jolla, Calif.) and Frederic Harris (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a method for performing frequency subchannelization, a digital signal is received at an original sampling rate. A plurality of multirate frequency channels is produced by dividing the digital signal into an integer number of multirate frequency channels such that a sampling rate of each of the multi...