US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 11 for "Array augmentation for audio playback devices" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,528, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Array augmentation for audio playback devices" was invented by Hilmar Lehnert (Framington, Mass.), Chris Davies (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Paul MacLean (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing augmented arrays for audio playback are disclosed. An example playback device includes a first transducer configured to output audio along a first acoustic axis and a second transducer configured to output audio along a second acoustic axis. The playback device is configured to receive a source stream of audio content including...