ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,153, issued on July 8, was assigned to Chromatic Inc. (New York).

"Method, apparatus and system for neural network hearing aid" was invented by Andrew J. Casper (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Igor Lovchinsky (New York), Nicholas Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Matthew de Jonge (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jonathan Macoskey (Pittsburgh) and Philip Meyers IV (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone...