US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on July 8 for "Detecting user's eye movement using sensors in hearing instruments" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,152, issued on July 8, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Detecting user's eye movement using sensors in hearing instruments" was invented by Martin McKinney (Minneapolis), Thomas Howard Burns (Minneapolis), Yezihalem Mesfin (Farmington, Minn.) and Kyle Walsh (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of one or more processing circuits obtains eye movement-related eardrum oscillation (EMREO)-related measurements from one or more EMREO sensors of a hearing instrument. The EMREO sensors are located in an ear canal of a user of the hearing instrument and are configured to detect environmental signals...