ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,353, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system speaker identification to set audio drive settings" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system speaker mount has standardized contacts and mounting points to accept plural speaker types with different speaker characteristics to generate audible sounds driven by an audio subsystem with audio driver settings, such as speaker-type gains. When a speaker is inserted, the audio subsy...