Patent ID: 7885416

Claim:
A method to automatically adjust a new hearing aid, comprising the steps of: temporarily bringing a first hearing aid, having an acoustic input and an acoustic output and that has been worn by a hearing-impaired person, into active communication with a measurement device that is a separate device from, and is external to, said first hearing aid; from a processor, operating said measurement device to obtain, by said active communication with said first hearing aid, a detected operational characteristic of said first hearing aid that represents overall operation of said first hearing aid between said acoustic input and said acoustic output of said first hearing aid; supplying said operational characteristic of said first hearing aid from said measurement device to said processor and, in said processor, automatically analyzing said operational characteristic of said first hearing aid to obtain an analysis result and automatically determining, fro said analysis result, setting parameters for electronic circuitry in a second hearing aid that is to replace said first hearing aid as a new hearing aid to be worn by said hearing-impaired person; temporarily placing said second hearing aid in active communication with a setting device that is connected to said processor and that is a separate device from, and is external to, said second hearing aid; and from said processor, setting said electronic circuitry in said second hearing aid with said setting parameters via said active communication between said setting device and said second hearing aid.