ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,778, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Hearing assistance systems and methods for monitoring emotional state" was invented by Majd Srour (Nesher, Israel), Amit Shahar (Hod HaSharon, Israel) and Roy Talman (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to hearing assistance systems and methods for monitoring a device wearer's emotional state and status. In an embodiment, a hearing assistance system is included having an ear-worn device that can include a control circuit and a microphone in electronic communication with the control circuit. The ear-worn devi...