ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,209, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Control based on proximity" was invented by Jonathon Reilly (Cambridge, Mass.) and Neil Griffiths (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for detecting presence of an object in proximity to a playback device and responsively performing one or more operations. In an example implementation, a playback device detects, via a proximity detector of the playback device, presence of an object in proximity to the playback device. In response to detecting the presence of the object, the playback device performs one or more...