US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 8 for "Noise classification for event detection" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,606, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Noise classification for event detection" was invented by Nick D'Amato (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Kurt Thomas Soto (Ventura, Calif.) and Connor Kristopher Smith (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a network microphone device includes a plurality of microphones and is configured to detect sound via the one or more microphones. The network microphone device may capture sound data based on the detected sound in a first buffer, and capture metadata associated with the detected sound in a second buffer. The network microphone device may classi...