US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 4 for "Wireless radio switching" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,003, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Wireless radio switching" was invented by Jeffrey M. Peters (Cambridge, Mass.) and Gary Fox (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback device comprising a first spectrum radio for communication via a first wireless spectrum and a second spectrum radio for communication via a second wireless spectrum operates in a first mode in which the first spectrum radio is enabled and the second spectrum radio is disabled. While operating in the first mode, the playback device receives a command to join a synchrony group with a display device. Based on the...