ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,440, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Managing volume control of an external audio output device via connected devices" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Krishnan Raghavan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, a method, and a computer program product provide a single input volume control across connected devices. The electronic device connects, via the communications subsystem, to a second electronic device having a second input control to establish an input sharing framework. The electronic device detects, via the input sharing, an audio out...