ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,212, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing assistive device comprising an attachment element" was invented by Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smoerum, Denmark), Carsten Scheel (Smoerum, Denmark), Martin Bergmann (Frederiksberg C, Denmark), Henrik Bay (Smoerum, Denmark), Morten Pedersen (Smoerum, Denmark), Bent Krogsgaard (Smoerum, Denmark), Jacob Mikkelsen (Smoerum, Denmark), Stefan Gram (Copenhagen, Denmark), Jan M. De Haan (Smoerum, Denmark) and Andreas Thelander Bertelsen (Smoerum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing assistive device comprises a multi-microphone system for providing a proce...