US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 31 for "Broadcast audio for synchronized playback by wearables" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,264, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Broadcast audio for synchronized playback by wearables" was invented by Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick III (Boston) and Walter Rivera (Atascadero, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include a playback device configured to: (i) obtain audio from an audio source via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN); (ii) generate broadcast times for individual portions of the audio content; and (iii) broadcast portions of the audio content to a Personal Area Network (PAN). Embodiments also include a wearable device configured to play audio received via a firs...