US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 8 for "Networked microphone device control" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,547, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Networked microphone device control" was invented by Mieko Kusano (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Dayn Wilberding (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Jonathan Wenocur (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein include, while a microphone of a first networked microphone device is enabled, determining whether a first reference device is in a specific state, and in response to determining that the first reference device is in the specific state, disabling the microphone of the first networked microphon...