US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 16 for "Hearing aid proximity detection and action to optimize a call" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,757, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hearing aid proximity detection and action to optimize a call" was invented by James R. Milne (Romona, Calif.) and William Clay (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first hearing aid includes a first sensor that receives first sensor data associated with a mobile device. The first hearing aid determines, based on the first sensor data, that a first distance between the first hearing aid and the mobile device is below a first distance threshold. The first hearing aid changes a first preset associated with the first hearing aid to a second preset. A second hear...