US Patent Issued to Sonos on Aug. 11 for "Zone volume control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,578, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Zone volume control" was invented by Eduardo Ahumada Apodaca (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques involve controlling playback volumes. An example implementation includes displaying a group volume control of a synchrony group, the group volume control comprising a group volume indicator on a group volume slider and receiving, via the displayed group volume control, input data representing a selection of the group volume control. The implementation also includes displaying, concurrently with the group volume control, a first volum...