ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,507, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Electronics module and hearing instrument base module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the auditory canal, hearing instrument to be worn in the auditory 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 electronics module for a hearing instrument to be worn in the auditory canal has a rechargeable battery, a mechanical holder, in which the rechargeable battery is received in the intended assembly state of the electronics module, a circuit car...