US Patent Issued to Sonos on April 8 for "Systems and methods of distributing audio to one or more playback devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,656, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of distributing audio to one or more playback devices" was invented by Ted Lin (Ayer, Mass.) and Romi Kadri (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving data indicating a configuration of one or more playback devices. The one or more playback devices may include one or more transducers. The method further includes, based on the received data, associating each of one or more audio streams respectively with at least one transducer of the one or more transducers. The method further includes generating...