Sonos ‘Can’t Discuss Future Plans,’ It Says of Patent for ‘Defect Detection’

Sonos “can’t discuss future plans” to commercialize technology embodied in a newly granted U.S. patent for “defect detection via audio playback” in a multiroom home entertainment network (see 1803300027), spokeswoman Lizzie Manganiello emailed Monday. Few “options” existed for “accessing” digital music until Sonos came along in 2005 with its Wireless HiFi System, said the patent.