US Patent Issued to Sonos on Aug. 25 for "Providing information associated with a media item" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,153, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Providing information associated with a media item" was invented by Ron Kuper (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein involve providing for display while a media item is being played by a media playback system, information associated with the media item. The information may be additional to information provided on a control interface for controlling the media playback system. In one example, a computing device may receive data indicating a media item being played by a playback device of a media playback system, and based on the da...