ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,786, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Active noise control for sound quality in hearing devices" was invented by Masahiro Sunohara (Plymouth, Minn.), Henning Schepker (Oldenburg, Germany), Martin McKinney (Minneapolis) and Piero Iared Rivera Benois (Bad Zwischenahn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for active noise cancellation (ANC) for hearing device applications. A method includes estimating a first sound pressure on an ear drum of a wearer of the hearing device caused by a hearing processing signal, estimating a...