ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,223, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for operating a binaural hearing device, binaural hearing device and data medium" was invented by Eghart Fischer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a binaural hearing device having two individual devices. The individual devices each have an input transducer to receive an acoustic signal and convert it into a multi-channel input signal, impulse noise suppression to generate an attenuation curve to reduce impulse noise signal levels, an amplifier for the multi-channel signal amplification of the input signal and for generati...