ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,325, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method for localizing a sound source for a binaural hearing system" was invented by Matthias Muller-Wehlau (Erlangen, Germany), Niklas Harlander (Erlangen, Germany) and Christoph Luken (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for localizing a sound source for a binaural hearing system with first and second hearing instruments. First and second input signals are formed from an ambient sound signal and directional signals are formed by directional signal processing of the input signals. The directional signals have a minimum sensitivity in differen...