ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,182, issued on July 15, was assigned to GN HEARING A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Method for earpiece design via misfit parameters" was invented by Vincent Maye (St Louis Park, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of designing an earpiece for a user, includes: obtaining 3D scan data of an ear; obtaining a model earpiece with an earpiece configuration based on the 3D scan data; determining coupling data indicative of a coupling of the model earpiece, the coupling data including misfit data including one or more misfit parameters; evaluating the earpiece configuration based on the misfit data; and determining information regarding ...