US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on March 4 for "Hearing assistance device housing for improved biometric sensing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,461, issued on March 4, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing assistance device housing for improved biometric sensing" was invented by Jay Stewart (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Michael Karl Sacha (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Kyle Olson (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for a hearing assistance device housing for biometric sensing. In various embodiments, a hearing assistance device for a wearer includes a housing customized to conform to a continuous section of an inner portion of an ear of the wearer and to extend radially to...