ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,487, issued on April 22, was assigned to OTICON A/S (Smorum, Denmark).
"Hearing aid having a sensor" was invented by Hongyan Sun (Allerod, Denmark), Martin Kuriger (Fribourg, Switzerland) and Morten Christophersen (Smorum, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid and a method performed by a hearing aid including at least one microphone unit, an accelerometer unit, and a processor. The method performed by the hearing aid includes generating a processed microphone signal including attenuating the microphone signal in accordance with an attenuation value; wherein the attenuation value is based on a measure of correlation betw...