US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Aug. 12 for "Predicting gain margin in a hearing device using a neural network" (Israeli, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,173, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Predicting gain margin in a hearing device using a neural network" was invented by Henning Schepker (Oldenburg, Germany), Sina Miran (Silver Springs, Md.), Lior Weizman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Liron Pollak (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device includes a microphone that produces an audio input signal and a loudspeaker that outputs an amplified audio signal into an ear canal. A signal processing path is coupled to the microphone and the loudspeaker. The signal processing path includes a deep neural network configured ...