US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 2 for "Seamless transition of source of media content" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,472, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Seamless transition of source of media content" was invented by Cameron Ellison Korb (Boston) and David Lawrence Bernstein (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a playback device is configured to (i) receive a first stream of audio data representing audio content from a computing system, (ii) detect an indication that a source of the audio content is to switch from the computing system to a user device; (iii) after detecting the indication, establish a point-to-point wireless link with the user device over which to receive a second stream of...