US Patent Issued to Sonos on May 19 for "Systems and methods for configuring a media player device on a local network using a graphical user interface" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,669, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goletta, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for configuring a media player device on a local network using a graphical user interface" was invented by Jason Yore (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and William Shoesmith (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring a media playback device to connect to a local area network (LAN) and be controlled by a mobile device also configured to connect to the LAN are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying screens on a graphical user interface on the mobile device indicating the status, scanning for Blu...