ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,188, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Media playback system with maximum volume setting" was invented by Frank Charlton (Seattle), Jodi Vautrin (Boston), Robert Lambourne (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Nathan Fish (Ventura, Calif.), Daniel Casimiro (Mansfield, Mass.) and Won So (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command to update a volume level of a group comprising a first and a second playback device to a requested group volume level is detected, the requested group volume level indicating respective requested volume levels for the first and second playback devices. Based on the command, (i) a first ...