ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,117, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"On-demand multi-audio broadcasting" was invented by Florian Lefeuvre (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content broadcast system may allow a user to select and start an audio stream of desired audio content without having to connect and authenticate to a specific device. Rather than a user having to pause the content and reconfigure settings of the broadcast system to select the desired audio content, the system may broadcast advertisements listing available audio content (e.g., corresponding to different spoken languages) and actively listen for re...