ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,264, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VEXARA GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Ear-associated inertial-acoustic fusion with deterministic audio-IMU synchronization" was invented by Uri Benjamin Rapoport (Moshav Ben Shemen, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-associated assistive system is disclosed that integrates acoustic sensing and inertial sensing to generate motion-compensated spatial parameters for hearing assistance and, in certain embodiments, to control stimulation for implantable auditory and/or vestibular interfaces. The system maintains temporal alignment between inertial samples and audio samples by maintain...