ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,549, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Hearing system containing a hearing instrument and a method for operating the hearing instrument" was invented by Cecil Wilson (Erlangen, Germany) and Maja Serman (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing system includes a hearing instrument and a method for operating the hearing instrument. Therein, a sound signal is captured from an environment of the hearing instrument. The captured sound signal is analyzed to recognize own-voice intervals, in which the user speaks. The captured sound signal is analyzed, during recognized own-voice intervals,...