ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,324, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to OTICON A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing aid comprising a physiological sensor" was invented by Thomas Lunner (Redmond, Wash.), Tanveer Bhuiyan (Smorum, Denmark), Jose Antonio Esparza Isasa (Smorum, Denmark), Sergi Rotger Griful (Smorum, Denmark), Antonello Salvatucci (Billund, Denmark), Gary Jones (Smorum, Denmark), Kim Tilgaard Petersen (Smorum, Denmark) and Peter Sommer (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid...