US Patent Issued to Sivantos on July 8 for "Method for determining the auditory threshold of a test subject, hearing aid system, method for setting hearing aid parameters and computer readable medium for performing the method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,038, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for determining the auditory threshold of a test subject, hearing aid system, method for setting hearing aid parameters and computer readable medium for performing the method" was invented by Ulrich Giese (Fuerth, Germany) and Eva Droste (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To determine an auditory threshold of a test subject, according to the method, multiple tone sets, which predominantly contain a plurality of noises, having properties remaining uniform within a tone set, are presented in succession to a test subject by use of an output tran...