ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,521, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sivantos Ptd. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method for operating a hearing instrument and hearing instrument" was invented by Cecil Wilson (Erlangen, Germany) and Matthias Muller-Wehlau (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a hearing instrument having an acousto-electric first input transducer and an electro-acoustic output transducer. A first input signal is generated by the first input transducer from an ambient sound. The first input signal and/or a first intermediate signal derived from the first input signal is resolved into a multiplicity of frequency bands. An output...