US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 8 for "Controller application mode switching" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,656, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Controller application mode switching" was invented by Adam Kumpf (Delaware, Ohio) and Roger Jackson (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example control device is configured to (i) operate in a classic mode of a media playback system (MPS) application in which the control device provides options for controlling the MPS, (ii) while in the classic mode, receive a request to operate in a compact mode of the MPS application, (iii) determine a context in which the control device received the request, (iv) based on the request, transition from operat...