ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,152, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Playback device calibration based on representative spectral characteristics" was invented by Klaus Hartung (Boston), Simon Jarvis (Cambridge, Mass.), Tim Sheen (Brighton, Mass.) and Chris Davies (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may maintain a database of representative spectral characteristics. The computing device may also receive particular spectral data associated with a particular playback environment corresponding to the particular playback device. Based on the particular spectral data, the computing device may identi...