US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on May 27 for "Fall prediction system including an accessory and method of using same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,716, issued on May 27, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Fall prediction system including an accessory and method of using same" was invented by Justin R. Burwinkel (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Sourav K. Bhunia (Shoreview, Minn.), Jason A. Galster (Minneapolis), Buye Xu (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Peter J. Tetrick (Chaska, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a fall prediction system and method of using such system are disclosed. The system includes a hearing device for a user, a sensor operatively connected to the hearing device and adapted to detect a characteristic of the user and gen...