US Patent Issued to Sonos on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for reducing audio quality based on acoustic environment" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,540, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reducing audio quality based on acoustic environment" was invented by Ryan Michael Bello (Sammamish, Wash.), Daniel Jones (London), Peter Dodds (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Briet Louise Brown (Boston) and Christopher Pike (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed playback devices, media playback systems, and/or methods improve upon the media playback experience by selectively reducing audio quality under certain conditions. The reduction of audio quality may be based on one or more aspects of the acoustic environment,...