US Patent Issued to Oticon on March 11 for "Method, charging system and computer program product for charging a battery of a hearing instrument" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,508, issued on March 11, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Method, charging system and computer program product for charging a battery of a hearing instrument" was invented by Jess Christensen (Smorum, Denmark) and Atli Gilbert Sigurdsson (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for charging a battery of a hearing instrument is disclosed. The method may comprise obtaining (110) a discharge function as a relationship between a battery charge and a voltage of the battery. The method may further comprise obtaining (112) a desired runtime capacity to be achieved by charging the battery. The method may furthe...