ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,440, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Output device selection" was invented by Jatin Bajaj (Santa Clara, Calif.), Clare Elizabeth Veladanda (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tom Vessella (Seattle), Gregg Taylor Lehman (Seattle) and Monty Eich (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide techniques for configuring a system to receive an input at a source device and present an output at another device within the same space as the source device. The output device may be selected based on various factors relating to the capabilities of the output device, the type of output respon...