Google Infringed on Speaker Technology Owned by Sonos, Trade Court Rules (nytimes.com)

Additional coverage: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/google-must-halt-some-d...

The official document is at https://www.usitc.gov/system/files/secretary/fed_reg_notices...

Sonos seems to patented the concept of "paired" speakers itself, and the protocol used to synchronize speaker's clocks for synchronous playback.

I wonder how Bose manages to produce their own multiroom system. Do they license the patents or do they somehow work around them?

Dupe, main discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29831929#29832293