ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,239, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for wireless audio device selection" was invented by Abhijith Prabha (Ernakulam, India), Vamshi Krishna Aagiru (Bangalore, India) and Shailendra Singh Chauhan (Bangaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for wireless audio device selection are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a compute device uses visual training to recognize headphones worn by a user. When the user puts on the headphones, the compute device may recognize the headphones and automatically route audio output to the headphones. In some embodiments, when se...