US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Jan. 27 for "Ear-wearable system and method for detecting heat stress, heat stroke and related conditions" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,079, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Ear-wearable system and method for detecting heat stress, heat stroke and related conditions" was invented by Paul Shriner (Hopkins, Minn.), Paul N. Reinhart (Minneapolis) and Andy S. Lin (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to ear-wearable systems and devices for detecting heat stress and related methods. In an embodiment, an ear-wearable heat stress risk assessment system is included having a control circuit, a microphone, and a sensor package. The system is configured to process signals of one or more se...