US Patent Issued to Sonos on Dec. 16 for "Facilitating the resolution of address conflicts in a networked media playback system" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,829, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Facilitating the resolution of address conflicts in a networked media playback system" was invented by Hrishikesh Gossain (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Jose Graziani (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Jeffrey M. Peters (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael Agerbak (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for facilitating resolution of Internet Protocol (IP) address conflicts involves obtaining a first IP address from a host device; monitoring, by a playback device, an input port of the host device for receiving messages and thereby detecting that the host device ha...