US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on May 13 for "Hearing device with multiple neural networks for sound enhancement" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,084, issued on May 13, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing device with multiple neural networks for sound enhancement" was invented by Daniel Marquardt (Hannover, Germany), Deepak Kadetotad (Tempe, Ariz.) and Tao Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear-wearable device stores a plurality of neural network data objects each defining a respective neural network. A sound signal received from a microphone of the ear-wearable device is digitized. An ambient environment of the digitized sound signal is classified into one of a plurality of classifications. Based on the classific...