ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,975, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Transition between network connections" was invented by Jeffrey M. Peters (Cambridge, Mass.), Nicholas A.J. Millington (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Jose Graziani (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Ted Lin (Ayer, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may broadcast a first message via a wireless interface while operating according to a first network topology. After broadcasting the first message, the computing device may receive the first message via a wired interface. Based on receiving the first message via the wired interface, the computing device may broadcast...