US Patent Issued to STARKEY LABORATORIES on Feb. 25 for "Apparatus and method for performing active occlusion cancellation with audio hear-through" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,473, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to STARKEY LABORATORIES INC. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Apparatus and method for performing active occlusion cancellation with audio hear-through" was invented by Wenyu Jin (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Masahiro Sunohara (Minneapolis) and Jingjing Xu (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive occlusion cancellation is performed in an ear-wearable device using an adaptive filter. An adaptive gain of the adaptive filter is used to determine a leakage path estimate between an external source and an eardrum of the user through the ear-wearable device. The leakage path estimate is used to updat...