ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,474, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).
"Hearing aid with cognitive adaptation and methods thereof" was invented by Niels Henrik Pontoppidan (Smorum, Denmark), Dorothea Wendt (Smorum, Denmark) and Hamish Innes-Brown (Smorum, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of cognitive adaptation which can be used for a hearing aid to a user. The method includes determining effort and environmental sound distributions over time and modifying settings of the hearing aid based on the optimization of estimations of future effort and environment."
The patent was filed on M...