ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,286, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for directional signal processing for a hearing instrument" was invented by Tobias Daniel Rosenkranz (Erlangen, Germany), Michael Burger (Erlangen, Germany) and Sandro Kecanovic (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performs directional signal processing for a hearing instrument. First and second input signals are generated by first and second input transducers, respectively, from a sound signal. The first front intermediate signal and a first rear intermediate signal are each formed from the first and second input signals. A first su...