ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,953, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method for operating a hearing aid and hearing aid" was invented by Julius Krieg (Erlangen, Germany) and Christoph Kukla (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a hearing aid, which has a sensor, a microphone, and a receiver. Breathing difficulties of a wearer are inferred on the basis of measurement data created by the sensor and a measure for a risk is determined based thereon. An activity helping the wearer is carried out depending on the measure. Furthermore, the hearing aid is configured for carrying out the method."
The patent ...