US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on April 15 for "Interactive system for hearing devices" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,092, issued on April 15, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Interactive system for hearing devices" was invented by Tao Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Eric Durant (Milwaukee), Dean G. Meyer (Mound, Minn.), Martin McKinney (Minneapolis), Matthew D. Kleffner (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Dominic Perz (Bloomington, Minn.) and Karrie Recker (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an audio signal, one or more processing circuits recognize spoken content in a user's own speech signal using speech recognition and natural language understanding. The spoken content describes a listening difficulty of the user. The...