ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,893, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to XanderGlasses Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Eyeglass augmented reality speech to text device and method" was invented by Alexander G. Westner (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus to assist people with hearing loss. An augmented reality device with microphones and a display captures speech of a person talking to the wearer of the device and displays real-time captions in the wearer's field of view, while optionally not captioning the wearer's own speech. The microphone system in this apparatus inverts the use of microphones in augmented reality devices by analyzi...