ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,605, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Audio output based on dynamic audio frame selection" was invented by Mark Andress (Seattle), Saurabh Gupta (Edmonds, Wash.) and Taylor Elliot Watson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to output audio data based on metadata associated with the audio data. A system can provide a buffer command to a plurality of computing devices. Based on providing the buffer command, the system can obtain, from the plurality of computing devices, a plurality of sets of audio data and a plurality of sets of metadata. The system can identif...