ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,873, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Synthetic content generation based on blockchain data" was invented by Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.), Gregory McAllister (London), Ryan Michael Bello (Sammamish, Wash.) and Christopher D. Butts (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generative content can be dynamically produced based on various inputs, which can include blockchain data, and conversely generative content or associated data can be written to a blockchain. As an example method, a computing device receives, via a network interface, first data corresponding to one or more input parameters, a...