ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,108, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Media playback systems with auxiliary audiovisual inputs" was invented by Thomas Calatayud (Plymouth, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are computing devices, including playback devices, that are configured to operate in several media distribution modes and play back audio data in several playback modes based at least in part on the source of audio/video data for playback. IN one example, a playback device receives, via a first hardware interface, an input stream of audiovisual content comprising first audio data and video data. The playback dev...