ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,241, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Group coordinator selection" was invented by Hrishikesh Gossain (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein involve selecting a group coordinator device for a zone group. An example implementation includes: receiving an instruction to form a zone group comprising the first media device and the second media device; comparing a first one or more communication parameters corresponding to a network connection of the first media device to a second one or more communication parameters corresponding to a network connection of the second...