ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,791, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Selective microphone use for audio conferencing" was invented by George-Andrei Stanescu (Morrisville, N.C.) and Florin Cazacu (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive first input from a first microphone and to receive second input from a second, different microphone. The instructions are also executable to, based on one or more identified audio ...