US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on March 25 for "Apparatus and method for reverberation mitigation in a hearing device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,181, issued on March 25, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Apparatus and method for reverberation mitigation in a hearing device" was invented by Paul Reinhart (Minneapolis), Tim Schoof (Minneapolis) and Jingjing Xu (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reverberation condition is detected affecting an electronic hearing device. The hearing device receives sound from a microphone and provides amplified sound to an in-ear receiver. The reverberation condition is predicted to impact clarity of the amplified sound. A sound processing capability is determined that will affect the reverberat...