US Patent Issued to Sonos on Dec. 16 for "Techniques for improving the power efficiency of a playback device" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,551, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Techniques for improving the power efficiency of a playback device" was invented by Chadwick James Souza (Providence, R.I.) and Aurelio Rafael Ramos (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback device including a processor that executes program instructions such that the playback device is configured to receive first audio data representing audio content, generate and output second audio data based on the first audio data, and at least in part while generating and outputting the second audio data, generate and output a control signal associated with ...