US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on July 7 for "Hearing screening and amplification device" (Pennsylvania, California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,797, issued on July 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Hearing screening and amplification device" was invented by Jeffrey Vipperman (Pittsburgh), Catherine Palmer (Pittsburgh), Erik Rauterkus (Pittsburgh), Jacalynn Ona Sharp (Silver Spring, Md.), Christopher Dumm (Verona, Pa.) and Joseph Lyle Koch (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable hearing screening and amplification device structured to be coupled to a headset includes: a housing, a plurality of buttons, a plurality of indicators, a microphone circuit, an output circuit, a power source, an...