US Patent Issued to Sonos on July 14 for "Playback system with device base" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,680, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Playback system with device base" was invented by Jonathan P. Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Christopher D. Butts (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques relate to changing a playback device mode based on a device base. In an example implementation, a first playback device operates in a first mode where it is connected to a first network and plays back audio content while in the first mode. The playback device detects connection of the first playback device to a device base and while the first playback device is on the device base, detects conn...