ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,551, issued on May 20, was assigned to OTICON A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing device or system comprising a communication interface" was invented by Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smorum, Denmark) and Jesper Jensen (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, comprises a) at least one input transducer for converting sound in the environment of the hearing device to respective at least one acoustically received electric input signal or signals representing said sound; b) a wireless receiver for receiving an audio signal from a wireless transmitter of a sound capturing device for picking up sound in ...