ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,882, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Process for fitting a hearing device" was invented by Maja Serman (Erlangen, Germany) and Claudia Pischel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for fitting a hearing device, a signal amplification is set or adapted on the basis of an ototoxic hearing loss. An input transducer picks up an acoustic signal and converts it into an input signal, a signal processing device processes the input signal and generates an output signal, and an output transducer converts the output signal into a sound signal. The signal processing of the signal proces...