ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,296, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nuance Hearing Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Hearing aid with own-voice mitigation" was invented by Yehonatan Hertzberg (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hearing assistance includes an array of microphones, which are configured be mounted in proximity to a head of a user of the system and to output electrical signals in response to first acoustic waves that are incident on the microphones. A speaker is configured for mounting in proximity to an ear of the user and configured to output second acoustic waves in response to a drive signal applied to the speaker. Processing circ...