US Patent Issued to Sonova on Nov. 4 for "Extending a hearing device with a user interface device to enable authentication" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,300, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Extending a hearing device with a user interface device to enable authentication" was invented by Michael von Tessin (Esslingen, Switzerland), Andreas Breitenmoser (Zurich) and Alexander Maksyagin (Ebmatingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary hearing device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to establish a first pairing relationship between the hearing device and a user interface device, receive, from the user interface dev...