ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,197, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Signal limit based on detecting clipping" was invented by Tony Doy (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques may involve controlling a passive radiator. An implementation may include a device receiving, via a network interface, audio content and generating an audio signal representing the audio content. Generating the audio signal involves modifying portions of the audio content to limit excursion of the speaker driver to less than an excursion limit when a forward prediction model indicates that the portions of the audio content are ...