US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 10 for "Enabling and disabling microphones and voice assistants" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,556, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Enabling and disabling microphones and voice assistants" was invented by Kate Wojogbe (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Jason Yore (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick III (Boston), Arthur Gordon (Seattle) and Mark S. Viscusi (Wrentham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example playback device may include at least one microphone and a capacitive control disposed on a housing of the playback device. The playback device may be configured to receive information that causes the playback device to operate in a first state where the playback device is configure...