ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,199, issued on July 15, was assigned to AMPLIFON S.P.A. (Milan).

"Hearing evaluation system" was invented by Gianna Lardaro (Naples, Italy) and Antonio Curci (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable hearing evaluation system is provided including: a portable computing device configured to provide audiometric testing of a patient according to one or more audiological standards; and a transducer, coupled to the portable computing device. The portable computing device is configured generate a plurality of test signals based at least in part according to one or more parameters and to be provided on an output of the portab...