US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Selection of master device for synchronized audio" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,343, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Selection of master device for synchronized audio" was invented by Fred Torok (Mercer Island, Wash.), Michael Alan Pogue (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vikram Kumar Gundeti (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dharini Sundaram (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronized output of audio on a group of devices can comprise sending audio data from an audio distribution master device to one or more slave devices in the group. Scores can be assigned to respective audio playback devices, the scores being indicative of a performance level of the respective audio playback dev...