ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,210, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Techniques for re-bonding playback devices" was invented by Maria-Jose Ramos (Seattle), Jonathan Herbst (Seattle), Justin A. Gallo (Watertown, Mass.) and Ryan E. Kitson (Bay City, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are computing devices, including playback devices, that are configured to facilitate re-joining of playback and other devices to a bonded zone based on the specific context relating to how the playback and other devices previously left the bonded zone. The computing devices may determine that playback devices that had been previously bond...