ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,213, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).
"Automatic ear impression classification" was invented by Jana-Kosima Schwarzlos-Sooprayen (Stafa, Switzerland) and Markus Leuthold (Stafa, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method for checking a usability of an impression model of a human ear includes determining an estimated shape model of the human ear by adapting a statistical shape model to the impression model, wherein the statistical shape model has been determined from a plurality of impression models of a plurality of human ears and wherein the statistical shape model has at l...