US Patent Issued to Voyetra Turtle Beach on March 31 for "Audio alerts in a hearing device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,186, issued on March 31, was assigned to Voyetra Turtle Beach Inc. (White Plains, N.Y.).

"Audio alerts in a hearing device" was invented by Richard Kulavik (San Jose, Calif.), Michael A. Jessup (San Jose, Calif.) and Kevin Arthur Robertson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game headset receives a game audio during play of a particular game, monitors the game audio and detects an occurrence of one or more particular sounds in the game audio during the monitoring of the one or more of the plurality of audio channels. In response to the detecting, the game headset triggers playback of one or more of a plurality of voic...