ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,732, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Playback device configuration and control" was invented by Christopher Kallai (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Robert A. Lambourne (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods include causing a graphical user interface to display an indication that a first and second playback device have been configured to play multi-channel audio content in at least one of a grouped mode or a stereo mode. Some embodiments include, (i) after receiving a command(s) to switch the first and sec...