ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,351, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to OTICON A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing device with minimum processing beamformer" was invented by Adel Zahedi (Smorum, Denmark), Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smorum, Denmark), Thomas Ulrich Christiansen (Smorum, Denmark), Lars Bramslow (Smorum, Denmark) and Jesper Jensen (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device adapted for being worn at or in an ear of a user, comprises a) an input unit comprising at last two input transducers each for converting sound around said hearing device to an electric input signal representing said sound, thereby providing at least two electric inp...