US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 24 for "Grouping in a system with multiple media playback protocols" (Massachusetts, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,700, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Grouping in a system with multiple media playback protocols" was invented by Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.), Jeffrey Torgerson (Stanwood, Wash.) and Robert A. Lambourne (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While a first playback device is a member of a synchronous media playback group with a second playback device using a first media playback protocol, and after a particular playback setting is enabled using the first media playback protocol, the first playback device receives, from a media source device, a first media stream using a seco...