US Patent Issued to Sonos on Feb. 25 for "Audio parameter adjustment based on playback device separation distance" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,162, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Audio parameter adjustment based on playback device separation distance" was invented by Jerad Lewis (Cambridge, Mass.), Douglas John Button (Simi Valley, Calif.), Kylie Beth Muntean (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Daniel Jones (London), Adib Mehrabi (London) and Christopher William Pike (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include playback devices configured to operate in one or more playback configurations including configurations individual playback devices play back one or more corresponding channels of multichannel au...