ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,108, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Dynamic transcoding for enhancing audio playback" was invented by Won So (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first playback device is configured to: operate as part of a synchrony group that comprises the first playback device and a second playback device; obtain a first version of audio content that is encoded according to a first encoding format; determine that the first version of the audio content is unsuitable for playback by the second playback device; based on the determination, (i) decode the first version of the audio content and (ii) re-encode a seco...