US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 8 for "Automatically allocating audio portions to playback devices" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,753, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Automatically allocating audio portions to playback devices" was invented by Jason Yore (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Nikolai Kutateladze (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Kate Wojogbe (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick III (Boston) and Allan Velzy (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for allocating audio data between a first playback device and a second playback device are disclosed. The audio data comprises a plurality of audio portions and the method comprises: detecting a trigger associated with the first playback device; responsive ...