ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,490, issued on April 22, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Speaker unit for a hearing aid device system, and hearing aid device system" was invented by Mathias Rask Moller (Smorum, Denmark), Peter Steutel (Smorum, Denmark) and Ole Andersen (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker unit detachably mountable to a hearing aid device body configured to be positioned behind an ear of a wearer is disclosed. Further, hearing aid device system comprising the speaker unit is disclosed. The speaker unit comprises a contacting unit comprising at least one contact element and configured to be detachably mountable to a...