US Patent Issued to Sonos on April 15 for "Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices" (California, Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,368, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices" was invented by Mark Plagge (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Simon Jarvis (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christopher Butts (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein include (i) receiving a voice command via at least one microphone of a networked microphone device, wherein the networked microphone device is configured to receive voice commands for a media playback system, and wherein the media playback system comprises the networked microphone device and a first playback device configur...