ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,762, issued on May 27, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Systems and methods for locating mobile electronic devices with ear-worn devices" was invented by Achintya Kumar Bhowmik (Cupertino, Calif.), Amit Shahar (Hod HaSharon, Israel), Majd Srour (Nesher, Israel) and Dagan Shtifman (Hod HaSharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to ear-worn devices that can be used to locate other devices such as mobile electronic devices. In a first aspect, an ear-worn device is included having a control circuit, a microphone in electrical communication with the control circuit, an electr...