US Patent Issued to Sivantos on Oct. 21 for "Electronic module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the ear canal and hearing instrument to be worn in the ear canal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,618, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Electronic module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the ear canal and hearing instrument to be worn in the ear canal" was invented by Thilo Von Mansberg (Erlangen, Germany), Marco Steffen (Lohne, Germany) and Alexander Menke (Lohne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the ear canal has a rechargeable battery, a circuit carrier, and a chipset arranged on the circuit carrier and forming an audio processor, and power management electronics. The circuit carrier is strip-shaped and, in the intended a...