US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on May 13 for "Hearing aid adapted for embedded electronics" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,071, issued on May 13, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing aid adapted for embedded electronics" was invented by Douglas F. Link (Plymouth, Minn.), David Prchal (Hopkins, Minn.) and Sidney A. Higgins (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid comprising a microphone, a receiver, hearing aid electronics coupled to the microphone and the receiver, and conductive traces overlaying an insulator, the conductive traces configured to interconnect the hearing aid electronics and to follow non-planar contours of the insulator. Examples are provided wherein the insulator includes a he...