US Patent Issued to Sonos on Aug. 12 for "Power management techniques for waking-up processors in media playback systems" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,330, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Power management techniques for waking-up processors in media playback systems" was invented by Cheng Lu (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one aspect, power management techniques are disclosed that may reduce the power consumption of devices, such as those devices in media playback systems, without introducing a noticeable lag between a user issuing a command the device processing the command. In some embodiments, the device may put to sleep (including turn off) electronic components that are only used for specific commands. In the...