US Patent Issued to Sonos on Dec. 30 for "Determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices" (California, Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,479, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices" was invented by Kurt Thomas Soto (Ventura, Calif.), Connor Kristopher Smith (New Hudson, Mich.), Roberto Maria Dizon (Somerville, Mass.), Patrick Kevin McPherson (Somerville, Mass.) and Charles Conor Sleith (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices are disclosed herein. In one example, an audio input is received at an array of individual microphones of a network microphone d...