US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on July 15 for "Electronic device using a compound metric for sound enhancement" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,488, issued on July 15, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Electronic device using a compound metric for sound enhancement" was invented by Joao Felipe Santos (Montreal), Tao Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Yan Zhao (Columbus, Ohio), Buye Xu (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Ritwik Giri (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising receiving at least one sound at an electronic device. The at least one sound is enhanced for the at least one user based on a compound metric. The compound metric is calculated using at least two sound metrics selected from an engineering metric, a perceptual ...