Sonos Won’t Comment on Product ‘Roadmap’ Based on Broad Patent Portfolio

Sonos has a global “portfolio of 630+ issued patents and 570 applications covering all manner of tech innovation,” spokeswoman Lizzie Manganiello emailed us Wednesday on our query about the company’s plans to commercialize the invention for which it landed a U.S. patent Tuesday on techniques of embedding ads as “structured metadata” in a “digital media playback system” (see 1808280002). “Some of these inventions have made their way into Sonos products, many have not yet, and some never will,” said Manganiello. “We’re not going to comment on our roadmap other than to say we won’t do anything that degrades the consumer listening experience.”