US Patent Issued to Sonos on May 20 for "Systems and methods of spatial audio playback with enhanced immersiveness" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,572, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of spatial audio playback with enhanced immersiveness" was invented by Paul MacLean (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of playing back audio content with improved immersiveness can include receiving, at a playback device, audio input including vertical content having a high-frequency portion and a low-frequency portion. The playback device can face along a first sound axis and comprise an up-firing transducer configured to direct sound along a second sound axis that is vertically angled with respect to the primary sound...