US Patent Issued to Oticon on Sept. 16 for "Hearing aid and method of performing bit error concealment" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,755, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing aid and method of performing bit error concealment" was invented by Mark Ruvald Pedersen (Smorum, Denmark), Nels Hede Rohde (Smorum, Denmark), Rene Poulsen (Smorum, Denmark), Soren Vornle Nielsen (Smorum, Denmark) and David Thorn Blix (Smorum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, at a hearing aid, including receiving a wireless signal including a succession of frames including a first frame including first encoded audio samples and determining a first codec, performing an error check based on the first frame, and in accordance with a determin...