ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,229, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Cloud-based video user interfaces" was invented by Jeffrey Michael Torgerson (Stanwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Playback devices can support playing back audio content of audio-visual content received from a media service, while corresponding video content is synchronously played back on a video display device. In some examples, the device can cause the video display device to display a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of media services associated with a user account, receive a user selection for media playback of audio-visual content...