ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,963, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Portable playback device power management" was invented by Liang Chai (Acton, Mass.), Xiang Wang (Braintree, Mass.), Brenda Stefani (Andover, Mass.), Lyford Beverage Jr. (Lawrence, Mass.), Allan Velzy (Needham, Mass.) and Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick III (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques related to portable playback device power management. An example implementation includes a main SoC comprising main processor(s), an auxiliary processor, and a kernel that executes on the one or more main processor cores. During kernel suspend of the kernel, a...