ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,072, issued on May 13, was assigned to Eargo Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multiple flexible tips for a hearing assistance device" was invented by Nuthan Hegde (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Sarjeant Aase (Incline Village, Nev.) and Daniel Shen (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flexible attachable tip is manufactured to repeatedly connect as well as disconnect to a body of a hearing assistance device. The flexible attachable tip is manufactured to have two or more offset layers of flexible earmolds. The tip has a dome-shaped earmold that is separated by an air gap from offset layers of inner earmolds. Each layer of ear...