US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Jan. 13 for "Ear-worn electronic device incorporating skin contact and physiologic sensors" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,568, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-worn electronic device incorporating skin contact and physiologic sensors" was invented by Sidney A. Higgins (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Kyle Olson (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-worn electronic device comprising a housing configured to be worn in, at or about an ear of a wearer, audio processing circuitry disposed in or supported by the housing and comprising one or more microphones and an acoustic transducer, a controller disposed in the housing and coupled to the audio processing circuitry, and a power source dis...