US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 31 for "Generative control of playback devices" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,615, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Generative control of playback devices" 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 media content (e.g., generative audio) can be dynamically generated based on various inputs, which can include blockchain data. A playback device accesses blockchain data stored via a distributed ledger and generates media content based at least in part on the blockchain data. The playback device can access a library of pre-exi...