ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,707, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Techniques for extending the lifespan of playback devices" was invented by John Lynch (Malden, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While operating in a first mode, a computing device transmits, to playback devices of a synchrony group, (i) media content and (ii) respective playback timing information for synchronous playback of the media content. After a first playback device with a different capability than at least one other playback device of the synchrony group has joined the synchrony group, the computing device begins to operate in a second mode for causing ...