US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on July 8 for "Hearing device with neural network-based microphone signal processing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,155, issued on July 8, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing device with neural network-based microphone signal processing" was invented by Buye Xu (Minnetonka, Minn.), Ivo Merks (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Frederic Philippe Denis Mustiere (Chaska, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing system performs nonlinear processing of signals received from a plurality of microphones using a neural network to enhance a target signal in a noisy environment. In various embodiments, the neural network can be trained to improve a signal-to-noise ratio without causing substantial distortion of the target sig...