ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,463, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Conditional content enhancement" was invented by Romi Kadri (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first playback device and a second playback device of a media playback system play back a first version of audio content in synchrony. While the first and the second playback devices are synchronously playing back the first version of the audio content, a change in at least one characteristic of the media playback system is detected. Based on the change in the at least one characteristic, a second version of the audio content is identified. The second...