US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Sept. 23 for "Mobile device that provides sound enhancement for hearing device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,781, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Mobile device that provides sound enhancement for hearing device" was invented by Tao Zhang (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Daniel Marquardt (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a mobile device that receives an audio signal from a microphone of the mobile device. The mobile device processes the audio signal via a neural network to obtain a speech-enhanced audio signal. The system includes an ear-wearable device comprising a data interface operable to communicate with the external data interface of the mobile device. ...