US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 17 for "Systems and methods for coordinated playback of analog and digital media content" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,256, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for coordinated playback of analog and digital media content" was invented by Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.), Adam Kumpf (Delaware, Ohio), Dana Krieger (Emeryville, Calif.), Philippe Vossel (Wuppertal, Germany), Russell Prince (Madison, Wis.), Ryan Purdy (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Thomas Schoeniger (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Sabrina Sexton (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media playback systems configured to playback media content based on provider (e.g., artist, musician, creator) intent are disclosed. In one example, a ...