ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,792, issued on July 8, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Audio routing determination for speaker devices" was invented by Igor Kovalenko (Palatine, Ill.) and Vishwanath Km (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a speaker device is within communication range of an electronic device, various rules are used to determine whether to connect to or route audio data to the speaker device. For example, the electronic device may prompt the user to choose whether to connect to a wireless speaker device. In situations in which the user rejects connecting to the wireless speaker device, subsequent attempts by the spe...