US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on May 20 for "Hearing device with dynamic neural networks for sound enhancement" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,552, issued on May 20, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Hearing device with dynamic neural networks for sound enhancement" was invented by Achin Bhowmik (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Daniel Marquardt (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Deepak Kadetotad (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing path receives an audio signal from a microphone of an ear-wearable device and reproduces the audio signal at a receiver that is placed within an ear of a user. A deep neural network (DNN) is coupled to the audio processing path that performs speech enhancement on the audio signal. An audio feature d...