ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,503, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Hearing device system and method for operating same" was invented by Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi (Erlangen, Germany), Marko Lugger (Weilersbach, Germany) and Umut Goekay (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a hearing device system which has a hearing aid and a peripheral device which provides a voice-controlled digital assistant. A microphone signal from the hearing aid is examined for own voice components of the wearer of the hearing aid. If own voice components are detected by the hearing aid the microphone signal is examined for a pre-de...