ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,196, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Audio playback adjustment" was invented by Luis Vega-Zayas (Arlington, Mass.), Ted Lin (Ayer, Mass.) and Jim Dolan (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first playback device is configured to (i) place audio frames representative of audio content in a buffer, each frame including respective playback timing information identifying a time to play back the audio frame, (ii) transmit the audio frames in the buffer to a second playback device, (iii) receive a command to adjust playback of the audio content, (iv) based on the command, identify a range of audio frame...