ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,008, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Bluetooth line-in stereo" was invented by Zijian Ken Hu (Quincy, Mass.) and Meng Wang (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include a first playback device operating in a first mode where the first playback device plays first audio received from a second playback device via a WLAN in a groupwise fashion. After connecting to a Bluetooth audio source, the first playback device switches from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode where the first playback device (i) ceases playing the first audio, (ii) generates secon...