ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,680, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GN HEARING A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Application for assisting a hearing device wearer" was invented by Qi Yang (Chicago), Gregory B. Olsen (Lombard, Ill.), Jeffrey Todd Schlensker (Chicago) and Viktor A. Mateevitsi (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital assistance for assisting a wearer of a hearing device to correctly arrange the hearing device with respect to an ear of the wearer, includes: a control configured to enable a preview of a first image to be displayed, wherein the first image is generated by a camera; wherein the control is also configured to enable a capturing of the ...