US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Estimation of hearing loss of a user from interactions with a local environment by the user identified from captured audio and information describing the local area" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,593, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Estimation of hearing loss of a user from interactions with a local environment by the user identified from captured audio and information describing the local area" was invented by Christi Miller (Seattle), Sara Ng (Seattle), Calvin Murdock (Seattle), Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner (Redmond, Wash.), William Owen Brimijoin II (Kirkland, Wash.) and Vamsi Krishna Ithapu (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system includes one or more acoustic sensors capturing audio from a local area surrounding the audio system and one or more...