US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Dec. 30 for "Ear-worn electronic device employing user-initiated acoustic environment adaptation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,472, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-worn electronic device employing user-initiated acoustic environment adaptation" was invented by Martin McKinney (Edina, Minn.), David Fabry (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jumana Harianawala (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Ke Zhou (Prior Lake, Minn.), Jaymin Baroda (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Brantly Sturgeon (Burnsville, Minn.) and Christopher Larry Howes (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-worn electronic device comprises a microphone configured to sense sound in an acoustic environment, an acoustic transducer, and a non-volatile memory c...