US Patent Issued to Sonos on Feb. 10 for "Intelligent setup for playback devices" (California, Massachusetts, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,945, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Intelligent setup for playback devices" was invented by Jennifer McDevitt (Santa Barbara, Calif.), James Babu (Seattle), Patrick Celentano (Boston), Kyle Hutchings (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.), Pratik Bhangale (Seattle), Michael Agerbak (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel Valente (Dracut, Mass.), William Shoesmith (Arlington, Mass.), Derek W. Erdmann (Duvall, Wash.), Conor Walsh (Natick, Mass.), Nikolai Kutateli (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Carl Fristrom (Watertown, Mass.) and Youngjoo Park (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback device is configured to (i) transmit...