ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,736, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Audio conflict resolution" was invented by Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example playback device is a first playback device in a media system. The first playback device is configured to resolve audio conflicts with one or more other playback devices in the media system by: (i) capturing, via a microphone of the first playback device, audio content played back by a second playback device, (ii) identifying the second playback device as a source of the captured audio content; and (iii) responsive to identifying the second playback d...