US Patent Issued to Sonova on Dec. 9 for "Hearing device chargers and hearing devices for use with same" (Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,679, issued on Dec. 9, 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 device charger for use with a hearing device including a charger housing, a transmitter coil, a power supply operably connected to the transmitter coil, and a hearing device support, defining a central axis and associated with the charger housing and the transmitter coil, configured to rotate the transmitter coil relative to the charger housing." ...