ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,215, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Immersive audio in a media playback system" was invented by Jonathan Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein involve an auxiliary zone contributing audio to a primary zone. In an example implementation, a network media system determines that a first zone in the network media system is playing back a first type of audio content and that a second zone in the network media system is not playing back audio content. While the first zone is playing back the first type of audio content and the second zone is not playin...