ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,616, issued on May 5, was assigned to Widex A/S (Lynge, Denmark).

"Method of operating a hearing aid system and a hearing aid system using speech forecasting" was invented by Rasmus Malik Hoeegh Lindrup (Berkeley, Calif.), Jens Brehm Bagger Nielsen (Ballerup, Denmark), Asger Ougaard (Frederikssund, Denmark) and Robert Scholes Lyck (Soeborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a hearing aid system in order to provide at least one of improved noise reduction and speech intelligibility and a hearing aid system adapted to carry out the method."

The patent was filed on June 3, 2022, under Application No. 18/566,268...