US Patent Issued to Sonos on Feb. 18 for "Techniques for clock rate synchronization" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,714, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Techniques for clock rate synchronization" was invented by Timothy Sheen (Brighton, Mass.), Steven Bechardt (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Jeffrey Peters (Leominster, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof, wherein individual playback devices are configured to detect and correct clock rate drift by synchronizing a clock rate and perhaps clock time of a local clock to a remote time source."

The patent was filed on July 14, 2023, under Applic...