ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,200, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Thermal control of audio playback devices" was invented by Hilmar Lehnert (Framington, Mass.) and Aurelio Ramos (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To avoid damage from overheating, playback device operation can be modulated based on input from temperature sensors. An example method includes obtaining, via one or more temperature sensors carried by the playback device, temperature data. Based on the temperature data, a first temperature parameter is detected. In response to detecting the first temperature parameter, a gain of audio playbac...