A little more than two years ago, Google found itself in the unfortunate position of having to make one of its signature products worse. Faced with an early 2022 U.S. trade commission ruling that found Google in violation of five Sonos patents, the tech giant made the decision to pull a series of smart speaker features, including a key one: the ability to control the volume of speaker groups using a single group volume slider. But in the wake of an October 2023 federal court ruling that those Sonos patents were invalid, Google began to roll back those changes, and on Wednesday, it said that sm…