US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 8 for "Activity reset" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,603, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Activity reset" was invented by Joni R. Hoadley (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Diane Roberts (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Robert A. Lambourne (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation, a method may involve sending a message that arranges a media playback system into a pre-defined state, wherein a first playback device is in a first zone having a first zone name, a second playback device is in a second zone having a second zone name, and a queue has a particular set of media items. The method may also involve detecting a trigger ind...