ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,101, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method for operating a hearing device based on a speech signal, and hearing device" was invented by Sebastian Best (Erlangen, Germany) and Marko Lugger (Weilersbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hearing device on the basis of a speech signal. An acousto-electric input transducer of the hearing device records a sound containing the speech signal from surroundings of the hearing device and converts the sound into an input audio signal. A signal processing operation generates an output audio signal based on the input audio signal....