ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,418, issued on Oct. 14.

"Device selection for outputting content" was invented by Janita Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ratika Anand (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit Bhattacharjee (Mill Creek, Wash.), Karthik Parameswaran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Samir Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Prathyusha Nadella (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a device(s) to output content are described. A primary device may receive a user input. Skill component configuration data may be determined, where the skill component configuration data indicates at least one display capability for outputting visual content of the skill compone...