ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,505, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oticon A/S (Smorum, Denmark).

"Hearing system comprising a hearing aid and an external processing device" was invented by Michael Syskind Pedersen (Smoerum, Denmark), Jesper Jensen (Smoerum, Denmark), Nels Hede Rohde (Smoerum, Denmark) and Vasudha Sathyapriyan (Smoerum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing system comprises at least one hearing aid (HA) configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear of the user, and an external, portable processing device (EPD). The at least one hearing aid comprises a) at least one HA-input transducer for providing at least one HA-electric input ...