US Patent Issued to Starkey Laboratories on Sept. 9 for "Wax protection for in-canal hearing device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,919, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Wax protection for in-canal hearing device" was invented by Sidney A. Higgins (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Brian Thomas Dahl (Minnetrista, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second s...