US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Jan. 27 for "Capture of context statistics in hearing instruments" (Minnesota, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,082, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Capture of context statistics in hearing instruments" was invented by Krishna Vastare (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Martin McKinney (Minneapolis), Kenneth Jensen (Brunswick, Md.), Lue Du (Hamel, Minn.) and Jingjing Xu (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises determining, based on signals from sensors of hearing instruments, current values of context parameters; determining, based on the current values of the context parameters, that a current context of the hearing instruments has changed or is likely to change from a firs...