US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 18 for "Ear-worn device and reproduction method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,203, issued on March 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Ear-worn device and reproduction method" was invented by Shinichiro Kurihara (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-worn device includes: a microphone that obtains a sound and outputs a sound signal of the sound obtained; a DSP that performs signal processing on the sound signal to determine whether speech contained in the sound has reverberance, and outputs, based on a result of the determination, a first sound signal obtained by performing first signal processing on the sound signal; a loudspeaker that reprodu...