ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,008, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sonova AG (Stafa, Switzerland).

"Automatically informing a user about a current hearing benefit with a hearing device" was invented by Marius Beuchert (Mosbach, Germany) and Michael Boretzki (uml u+ee ti, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method informs a user of a hearing device about a current hearing benefit with the hearing device. The method is performed by a hearing system including the hearing device, which is worn by the user. The method includes: acquiring a sound signal with a microphone of the hearing device, processing the acquired sound signal with the hearing device via a...