US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 5 for "Speaker selection in calling and conferencing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,734, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Speaker selection in calling and conferencing" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Philip Ibo Ibrahima Drammeh (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing audio device handover in a communication system. The decision whether to handover a call from one acoustic assembly to a candidate handover acoustic assembly during the call is based, at least in part, on a determined power ratio associated with the candidate handover acoustic assembly. In this manner, the handover is based o...