US Patent Issued to Chromatic on Aug. 19 for "Hearing loss amplification that amplifies speech and noise subsignals differently" (New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,800, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Chromatic Inc. (New York).

"Hearing loss amplification that amplifies speech and noise subsignals differently" was invented by Nicholas Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Igor Lovchinsky (New York) and Andrew J. Casper (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid includes neural network circuitry configured to implement a neural network trained to separate a speech subsignal and a noise subsignal from an input audio signal, and digital processing circuitry. The digital processing circuitry includes a speech wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) pipeline and a noise WDRC pipeli...