Can Apple help people with hearing aids?

This is great news from Apple.
Their Apple iOS 6 will bring compatibility to hearing aids.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published a pair of Apple inventions outlining two iDevice-driven hearing assistance systems the company may implement in the near future.
In the first patent, Apple attempts to solve the problems some hearing aid users face when a person they are listening to has inconsistent speech patterns. Because most hearing aids amplify sound non-selectively, it may be hard for a user to pick out what they want to hear from ambient noise.
Flame Health look forward in seeing these on the shelves!