ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,347, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Spatial antenna diversity techniques" was invented by Niels van Erven (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Kasra Payandehjoo (Malden, Mass.), Michael Frey (Tyngsboro, Mass.), Anthony Maglio (Boston) and Ron Roberts (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include headphone devices with spatially diverse antennas employing multiple operational modes and antenna switching policies. The headphone device may identify a current mode of operation and wirelessly communicate with at least one external device based at least in part on the current mod...