US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 3 for "Techniques to reduce time to music for a playback device" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,031, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Techniques to reduce time to music for a playback device" was invented by Cheng Lu (Malden, Mass.) and Stuart Eichert (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example playback device is configured to detect an input indicating a command to power up the playback device and, based on the input, begin initialization of a wireless network interface. After beginning initialization of the wireless network interface but before the playback device is capable of establishing a connection to at least one wireless network type via the wireless network interface,...