US Patent Issued to Oticon on Sept. 16 for "Hearing aid system comprising a sound source localization estimator" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,754, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing aid system comprising a sound source localization estimator" was invented by Jesper Jensen (Smoerum, Denmark), Poul Hoang (Smoerum, Denmark) and Simone Birk Bols Thomsen (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid configured to be worn at or in an ear of a user including hearing aid comprising A) a multitude of microphones, B) a database including b1) a plurality of acoustic transfer function vectors representing different candidate locations of a target sound source in the environment relative to the microphone system, and b2) a multi...