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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Sonos Inc.

47 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

47
Total Pending OAs
17
Final Rejections
30
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19346865 IMMERSIVE AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM LAEKEMARIAM, YOSEF K 2691 Non-Final OA Oct 01, 2025
19080510 DISTRIBUTED GENERATIVE MODELS PAUL, DISLER 2695 Final Rejection Mar 14, 2025
19031215 Networked Device Group Information in a System with Multiple Media Playback Protocols FLYNN, RANDY A 2424 Non-Final OA Jan 17, 2025
19022968 STORING GENERATED DIGITAL OBJECTS ON A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 2161 Non-Final OA Jan 15, 2025
18982755 Priority Media Content HOSSAIN, FARZANA E 2482 Non-Final OA Dec 16, 2024
18969003 CLOUD-BASED VIDEO USER INTERFACES SALCE, JASON P 2421 Non-Final OA Dec 04, 2024
18869704 CONTEXTUAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENT DETECTION PIERORAZIO, MICHAEL 2426 Non-Final OA Nov 26, 2024
18886512 Media Playback System Control via Multiple Networks WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 Non-Final OA Sep 16, 2024
18808709 Wireless Transmission to Satellites for Multichannel Audio System DIAZ, SABRINA 2693 Non-Final OA Aug 19, 2024
18802146 TECHNIQUES FOR RE-BONDING PLAYBACK DEVICES HUBER, PAUL W 2691 Non-Final OA Aug 13, 2024
18800916 Sound and Light Experiences CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG 2844 Non-Final OA Aug 12, 2024
18766327 Intelligent User Interfaces for Playback Devices YOON, ERIC 2118 Non-Final OA Jul 08, 2024
18760210 Playback Zone Representations ORR, HENRY W 2172 Non-Final OA Jul 01, 2024
18754022 CONTEXTUAL MEDIA CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 Non-Final OA Jun 25, 2024
18745199 Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Non-Final OA Jun 17, 2024
18738169 Playback Device Grouping MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Non-Final OA Jun 10, 2024
18680441 PLAYBACK OF SYNTHETIC MEDIA CONTENT VIA MULIPLE DEVICES MENGESHA, MULUGETA A 2424 Final Rejection May 31, 2024
18712334 FLEXIBLE BACKHAUL TECHNIQUES FOR A WIRELESS HOME THEATER ENVIRONMENT HAMID, AMMAR T 2695 Non-Final OA May 22, 2024
18654711 Contextualization of Voice Inputs GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X 2656 Non-Final OA May 03, 2024
18635422 Management of Media Playback System Splits and Location Designation for Partitions of a Media Playback System NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH 2691 Non-Final OA Apr 15, 2024
18635595 Multi-User Media Playback System TOLENTINO, RODERICK 2439 Non-Final OA Apr 15, 2024
18621824 TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT FEEDBACK SNIEZEK, ANDREW L 2693 Non-Final OA Mar 29, 2024
18696467 USE OF AN ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) RADIO IN PLAYBACK DEVICES NEFF, MICHAEL R 2631 Non-Final OA Mar 28, 2024
18601647 PLAYBACK DEVICES HAVING ADJUSTABLE TRANSDUCER POSITIONS DIAZ, SABRINA 2693 Non-Final OA Mar 11, 2024
18691019 SPATIAL AUDIO PLAYBACK WITH ENHANCED IMMERSIVENESS ZHANG, LESHUI 2695 Final Rejection Mar 11, 2024
18597873 Systems and Methods for Calibrating a Playback Device MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Non-Final OA Mar 06, 2024
18430181 CONTENT DISCOVERY THOUGH PROMPTS NEHCHIRI, KOOROSH 2174 Final Rejection Feb 01, 2024
18411731 Room-Informed Binaural Rendering BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 Final Rejection Jan 12, 2024
18408495 Delay Gating for Voice Arbitration SAINT CYR, LEONARD 2658 Final Rejection Jan 09, 2024
18514882 ASSOCIATING PLAYBACK DEVICES WITH PLAYBACK QUEUES MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Final Rejection Nov 20, 2023
18508060 Networked Microphone Devices, Systems, and Methods of Localized Arbitration JACKSON, JAKIEDA R 2657 Non-Final OA Nov 13, 2023
18502644 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RECEIVING VOICE INPUT REPSHER III, JOHN T 2143 Final Rejection Nov 06, 2023
18474961 Cloud Queue Access Control MAUNG, THOMAS H 2692 Non-Final OA Sep 26, 2023
18469147 AUDIO SETTINGS MAUNG, THOMAS H 2692 Non-Final OA Sep 18, 2023
18464848 Multiple Media Playback Protocols for Synchronized Media Playback in Grouped Zones WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 Final Rejection Sep 11, 2023
18452909 PROVIDING TEMPORARY GUEST ACCESS TO A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM PERUNGAVOOR, VENKATANARAY 2492 Non-Final OA Aug 21, 2023
18340431 ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES IN A PLAYBACK SYSTEM MAUNG, THOMAS H 2692 Non-Final OA Jun 23, 2023
18339704 Context-Based User Music Menu Systems and Methods DEBROW, JAMES J 2174 Final Rejection Jun 22, 2023
18311862 Audio Content Search in a Media Playback System GLASSER, DARA J 2161 Final Rejection May 03, 2023
18041850 MOOD DETECTION AND/OR INFLUENCE VIA AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES BRINEY III, WALTER F 2692 Final Rejection Feb 16, 2023
18068494 Speech Enhancement Based on Metadata Associated with Audio Content GAY, SONIA L 2657 Final Rejection Dec 19, 2022
18066926 Synchronized Audio Mixing GAY, SONIA L 2657 Final Rejection Dec 15, 2022
18063146 Application Programming Interface for Browsing Media Content SAX, STEVEN PAUL 2146 Non-Final OA Dec 08, 2022
18048635 Facilitating Streaming Media Access Via A Media-Item Database LE, MICHAEL 2163 Final Rejection Oct 21, 2022
17933401 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING SPATIAL AUDIO ASSOCIATED WITH A SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 Final Rejection Sep 19, 2022
17833224 RADIO COEXISTENCE TECHNIQUES FOR PLAYBACK DEVICES TSVEY, GENNADIY 2648 Non-Final OA Jun 06, 2022
17113419 Systems, Methods, Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture to Provide Automatic Wireless Configuration RAZA, MUHAMMAD A 2449 Final Rejection Dec 07, 2020

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