US Patent Issued to Sonova on July 8 for "Systems and methods for own voice detection in a hearing system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,150, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for own voice detection in a hearing system" was invented by Henry Luo (Surrey, Canada) and Ara Talaslian (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary hearing device is configured to determine a first and a second sound pressure level (SPL) of a first and second spectral portion, respectively, of an ipsilateral audio signal representative of audio content. The first and second spectral portions have frequencies included in a first and a second frequency range, respectively, with the second frequency range being higher than th...