US Patent Issued to Sonova on April 15 for "Hearing device chargers and hearing devices for use with same" (Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,093, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Hearing device chargers and hearing devices for use with same" was invented by Jaewoo Kim (Waterloo, Canada), Sahba Aazami (Founex, Switzerland) and Mika Ilvonen (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing system having a hearing device, including a receiver antenna assembly with a receiver core having a relatively high magnetic permeability and a receiver coil wound around the receiver core, operably connected to a rechargeable power source, and a hearing device charger, including a transmitter antenna assembly, with a transmitter core having a re...