US Patent Issued to Sonos on July 29 for "Re-establishing player connectivity" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,008, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Re-establishing player connectivity" was invented by Jeffrey Peters (Leominster, Mass.) and Hrishikesh Gossain (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques relate to re-establishing connectivity of playback devices. In an example implementation, a first playback device determines that a first access point has been replaced with a second access point, wherein the first playback device previously established a valid network connection over the first WLAN using first network parameters. The first playback device connects to the second acces...