US Patent Issued to SONOS on Dec. 23 for "Routines for playback devices" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,948, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SONOS INC. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Routines for playback devices" was invented by Shilpa Sarode (Cambridge, Mass.), Joshua Salit (Danbury, Conn.), Nikit Waghela (New York), Graham Bullis (Seattle), Brandon Wright (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Luis Vega (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving the playback mode indication, a playback device is caused to operate within a particular playback mode. After initiating operation of the particular playback mode, the playback device accesses a particular set of routines that is associated with the particular playback mode. The p...