ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,397, issued on May 26, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Scent diffusing system" was invented by Adam Kumpf (Delaware, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques described herein involve a scent diffusing system. The system can include scent diffusing device(s), playback device(s), and controller device(s). The controller device may display on a graphical interface a representation of a first scent diffusing device and receive one or more inputs selecting the representation of the first scent diffusing device and a particular scent for the first scent diffusing device to release. At least one setting for the pa...