US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on July 29 for "Infection risk detection using ear-wearable sensor devices" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,857, issued on July 29, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Infection risk detection using ear-wearable sensor devices" was invented by Archelle Georgiou Feldshon (Wayzata, Minn.), Krishna Chaithanya Vastare (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Andy S. Lin (Chanhassen, Minn.), Kyle Olson (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Michael Karl Sacha (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Amit Shahar (Hod HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to ear-wearable devices and systems that can detect a risk of infection in a device wearer. In a first aspect, an ear-wearable infecti...