US Patent Issued to OTICON on May 27 for "Hearing device comprising a speech intelligibility estimator" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,037, issued on May 27, was assigned to OTICON A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing device comprising a speech intelligibility estimator" was invented by Jesper Jensen (Smorum, Denmark) and Asger Heidemann Andersen (Frederikssund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, comprises a) an input unit configured to provide at least one time-variant electric input signal representing sound, the at least one electric input signal comprising target signal components and optionally noise signal components, the target signal components originating from a target sound source; b) a signal processing unit for proces...