ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,036, issued on May 27, was assigned to GN Hearing A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Hearing device with adaptive pinna restoration" was invented by Rob Anton Jurjen De Vries (Tilburg, Netherlands), Jesper Bunsow Boldt (Ballerup, Denmark) and Erik Cornelis Diederik Van Der Werf (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device includes: a pinna restorer for provision of a pinna output based on a first pinna input and a second pinna input, wherein the first pinna input is based on a primary first microphone input signal, and wherein the second pinna input is based on a primary second microphone input signal, the pinna res...