ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,461, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Removable battery designs for custom hearing instruments" was invented by Ganesh Borra (Plymouth, Minn.), Joseph Matthias Reis Jr. (Minneapolis), Ryan Owens (Hopkins, Minn.) and Mark Allen Pankratz (Bloomington, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing instrument may comprise a housing that defines a cavity, wherein the housing includes an inner side that is formed to conform with user anatomy, an outer side that is externally visible when the hearing instrument is placed within an ear of a user. The hearing instrument may further comprise...