ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,880, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fortell Research Inc. (New York).

"Ear-worn device with neural network-based noise modification and/or spatial focusing" was invented by Igor Lovchinsky (New York), Israel Malkin (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Nathan Agmon (New York), Philip Meyers IV (San Francisco) and Nicholas Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-worn device includes two or more microphones and noise reduction circuitry including neural network circuitry. The neural network circuitry is configured to: receive multiple audio signals wherein at least two of the multiple audio signals each originate from a d...