US Patent Issued to GN HEARING on Sept. 23 for "Speech recognition hearing device with multiple supportive detection inputs" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,204, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GN HEARING A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Speech recognition hearing device with multiple supportive detection inputs" was invented by Michael B. Lasky (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for improving hearing devices by using computer speech recognition of words in the first instance, and then other elements of data acquisition to increase the confidence level that words recognized are accurately identified. If a required predetermined confidence level is reached or the engine(s) with the highest confidence is determined, the recognized/deciphered word from that engine(s) ...