ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,848, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MAXLINK GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Hearing-aid audio control method and system" was invented by Jian-Shing Wong (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing-aid audio control method and system are disclosed. The method includes the steps of obtaining a hearing compensation curve of a hearing-impaired person in advance; receiving and obtaining an original audio signal; using the hearing compensation curve to perform power compensation on a corresponding frequency band of the original audio signal to obtain a hearing-aid audio signal; outputting the hearing-aid audio ...