ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,214, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Bluetooth internal audio routing for system lack of hardware support" was invented by Shuangqing Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Hans Edward Birch-Jensen (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes establishing, by a device, a first wireless audio link between a phone and a Bluetooth speaker via the device and establishing, by the device, a second wireless audio link between the Bluetooth speaker and the phone via the device. The Bluetooth speaker includes a local speaker and a microphone. The method also includes receivi...