US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 3 for "Acoustic waveguides for multi-channel playback devices" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,760, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Acoustic waveguides for multi-channel playback devices" was invented by Paul MacLean (Quincy, Mass.), Tristan Taylor (Boston), Wulin Xia (Seattle) and Daniel Brim (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic waveguides can be used to improve audio performance of playback devices, such as a soundbar. Such a playback device can include an elongated body defining an outer perimeter with a forward surface, an upper surface, and a rounded edge between the forward surface and the upper surface. An up-firing transducer is configured to direct sound along an axis t...