US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method for speech enhancement and feedback cancellation using a neural network" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,916, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Apparatus and method for speech enhancement and feedback cancellation using a neural network" was invented by Majid Mirbagheri (Seattle) and Henning Schepker (Oldenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing device includes a deep/recurrent neural network trained to jointly perform sound enhancement and feedback cancellation. During training a neural network is connected between a simulated input and a simulated output of the hearing device. The neural network is operable to change a response affecting the simulated output. The neura...