ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,292, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Multi-device integration with hearable for managing hearing disorders" was invented by Amol Jayant Pangarkar (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew Corbin Wiggins (San Jose, Calif.) and Swapnil Prabhakar Vinod (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hearing management, using a portable device or integrated portable devices, can include generating during a hearing diagnostics phase an audiogram based on responses of a user to signals conveyed to the user. In response to detecting ambient noises during the hearing diagnostics phase, noise ca...