ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,929, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).

"Closed-loop method to individualize neural-network-based audio signal processing" was invented by Sarah Verhulst (Ghent, Belgium), Fotios Drakopoulos (Ghent, Belgium), Arthur Van Den Broucke (Knokke-Heist, Belgium) and Sarineh Keshishzadeh (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of auditory devices. In particular, the present invention provides a method for converting an auditory stimulus to a processed auditory output. The present invention also relates to uses of the method, auditory devices configured to perfor...