US Patent Issued to Bose on Feb. 18 for "Hearing assistance devices and methods of generating a resonance within a hearing assistance device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,849, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Hearing assistance devices and methods of generating a resonance within a hearing assistance device" was invented by Michael J. Daley (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Shaun Ente (Brighton, Mass.) and Lei Cheng (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides hearing assistance devices and methods of generating a resonance within hearing assistance devices that use moving coil drivers, e.g., electro-dynamic coil drivers. As small moving coil drivers are typically inefficient within the voice band of frequencies, e.g., above 1 kHz, the hearing ...