US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 30 for "Remote playback queue" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,877, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Remote playback queue" was invented by Mark Triplett (Hinsdale, Ill.), Jonathan P. Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Hrishikesh Gossain (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate discovery and remote configuration of content for playback via a multimedia playback network are disclosed. An example method includes facilitating identification of multimedia content being played, the identification including at least one of a content identifier associated with the content and the content it...