ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,619, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Playback device configuration" was invented by Tetsuro Oishi (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and William H. Bush (Santa Clarita, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein involve configuring a playback device based on distortion, such as that caused by a barrier. One implementation may involve causing the playback device to play audio content according to an existing playback configuration, determining an existing frequency response of the playback device in a given system, and determining whether a difference between the existing frequency respons...