US Patent Issued to Oticon on March 18 for "Hearing device comprising an input transducer in the ear" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,197, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing device comprising an input transducer in the ear" was invented by Thomas Behrens (Smorum, Denmark), Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smorum, Denmark) and Meng Guo (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid includes a forward path for processing sound from the user's environment. The forward path includes a) a first microphone providing a first electric input signal representing sound as received at the first microphone, the first microphone being located away from an ear canal of the user, b) an audio signal processor for processing the first...