ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,630, issued on March 25, was assigned to Widex A/S (Lynge, Denmark).

"Differential delta-sigma modulator for a hearing aid" was invented by Niels Ole Knudsen (Humlebaek, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential delta-sigma-modulator has an integrator including a pair of single-ended amplifiers. A sample clock is driving a first switchable capacitor configuration and a second switchable capacitor configuration at a predetermined switching cycle. The first switchable capacitor configuration is adapted for sampling respective outputs from the pair of single-ended amplifiers on a pair of output sampling capacitors in the fi...