US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 17 for "Systems and methods for maintaining distributed media content history and preferences" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,183, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for maintaining distributed media content history and preferences" was invented by Christopher D. Butts (Wilmette, Ill.), Ryan Michael Bello (Sammamish, Wash.), Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Benatan (Stockport, Great Britain), Kurt Thomas Soto (Ventura, Calif.), Ian Ward Frank (Arlington, Texas), Daniel Jones (London), James A. Nesfield (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Gershon Dublon (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed media content history and preferences can be stored and maintained by media playback systems includin...