ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,279, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Default playback device designation" was invented by Jonathan P. Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods discussed herein involve designating a default playback device in a local playback network. One method may involve determining that a networked microphone device is available for assignment to one or more playback zones within a local playback network, displaying a prompt to indicate at least one playback zone to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, receiving an input indicating a particular playback zone ...