ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,167, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TK&H Holding AS (Tjome, Norway).

"Hearing aid system integrable in an eyeglass frame" was invented by Tom Austad (Tjome, Norway) and Hans Zwart (Apeldoorn, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to an eyeglass frame system comprising at least two microphones in wireless communication with adapted air buds. The hearing aid system is configured with a video camera in communication with a face contour detection process that together with an audio processing system is performing beam forming of respective microphones thereby improving reception of audio sound f...