ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,011, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Inventec Appliances (Pudong) Corp. (Shanghai), Inventec Appliances (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Inventec Appliances Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for selecting a response, an earphone base, a method of selecting a wireless earphone, a device and a medium" was invented by Jun Fang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jing-Song Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shih-Kuang Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for selecting a response, an earphone base, a method of selecting a wireless earphone, a device and a medium. The method for selecting a res...