US Patent Issued to Sonos on April 1 for "Manufacture of a grille element for a media playback device" (American, Chinese, Malaysian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,635, issued on April 1, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Manufacture of a grille element for a media playback device" was invented by Wei-Hean Liew (Boston), Wulin Xia (Olympia, Wash.), Teik Siang Lee (Penang, Malaysia), Qiang Wu (Zhuhai, China), Tristan Taylor (Boston), Philippe Vossel (Wuppertal, Germany), Edward Mitchell (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Jonathan Oswaks (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing process for a grille element of a media playback system is provided. In one embodiment a sheet of plastic is thermoformed into a desired shape. Holes may have been drilled into the sheet o...