ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,187, issued on July 8, was assigned to GN Hearing A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Hearing device with third party model control and related methods" was invented by Allan Munk Vendelbo (Ballerup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device and methods for operating a hearing device is disclosed, the hearing device comprising a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; an interface; and a memory unit, wherein the memory unit has stored therein a first primary customer device identifier; a first model certificate comprising a first customer identifier; and second model data comprisi...