ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,994, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Oticon Medical A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing aid for placement at an ear of a user" was invented by Emilie Munk Haagerup (Smorum, Denmark), Peder Hesselbjerg Pedersen (Kobenhavn N, Denmark), Mads Buur Mortensen (Smorum, Denmark) and Johan Rosengren (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a hearing aid for placement on head of a user comprising a first second part. The first part may comprise an acoustic input transducer adapted to convert ambient sound picked up at the ear of the user to an electric signal, a signal processor adapted to process the electric ...