ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,663, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Dynamic content recommendations" was invented by Sein Woo (Whittier, Calif.) and Bona Kim (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may be configured to (i) operate as a control device of a media playback system including first and second playback devices, each associated with a respective playback queue, (ii) determine that a first playback queue associated with the first playback device is empty, (iii) based on the determination, determine content recommendations based on context information related to the first playback device, (iv) display indicat...