US Patent Issued to Sonos on April 15 for "Managing content quality and related characteristics of a media playback system" (California, Massachusetts, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,013, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Managing content quality and related characteristics of a media playback system" was invented by Brandon Wright (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Ryan Edward Kitson (Tillamook, Ore.), Won So (Boston), Ted Lin (Ayer, Mass.), Jeffrey M. Peters (Cambridge, Mass.) and Michael Sheldon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example first playback device is configured to: while the first playback device is in a synchrony group with a second playback device, play back a first version of audio content in synchrony with the second playback device; in response to identifying...