ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,832, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Voice control of a media playback system" was invented by Nicholas A.J. Millington (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Keith Corbin (Boston) and Mark Plagge (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system is configured to cause a first playback device in a first playback zone to operate in a given playback state including play back of media items identified in a playback queue associated with the first playback zone. The system is also configured to, while the first playback device is operating in the given playback state, (i) receive data correspondin...