ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,489, issued on April 22, was assigned to OTICON A/S (Smorum, Denmark).
"RF antenna and hearing device with RF antenna" was invented by Jens Troelsen (Smorum, Denmark), Oliver Sundberg (Smorum, Denmark), Kare Tais Christensen (Smorum, Denmark) and Henning Knak Poulsen (Roskilde, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a hearing aid with an RF antenna arranged within the hearing aid's housing, and a loudspeaker positioned in the ear canal of the user. The RF antenna is configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance ...