ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,100, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Hearing system including a hearing instrument and method for operating the hearing instrument" was invented by Cecil Wilson (Erlangen, Germany), Maja Serman (Erlangen, Germany) and Eghart Fischer (Schwabach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing system includes a hearing instrument for capturing a sound signal from an environment of the hearing instrument. The captured sound signal is processed, and the processed sound signal is output to a user of the hearing instrument. In a speech recognition step, the captured sound signal is analyzed to recognize...