US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 9 for "Capacitive touch sensor with integrated antenna(s) for playback devices" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,652, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Capacitive touch sensor with integrated antenna(s) for playback devices" was invented by Niels van Erven (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Kasra Payandehjoo (Malden, Mass.) and Nicholas D'Amato (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Playback devices can include touch sensor assemblies with one or more integrated antennas. Such touch sensor assemblies can be incorporated into a playback device such as a headphone device. The playback device can include an electrode comprising a first conductor, a second conductor, and a filter coupled between the first and sec...