US Patent Issued to Bose on July 1 for "Hearing assistance using active noise reduction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,932, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Hearing assistance using active noise reduction" was invented by Jahn Dmitri Eichfeld (Natick, Mass.), Daniel M. Gauger Jr. (Berlin, Mass.), Ryan C. Silvestri (Franklin, Mass.) and Ryan terMeulen (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, in one aspect, a hearing aid has an ANR circuit and an ear tip that acoustically occludes the ear. Such a hearing aid provides greater gain to sounds than would be stable in the same hearing aid with a vented ear tip. The ear tip and the ANR circuit in combination attenuate sounds reaching the ear canal through ...