US Patent Issued to Spotify on June 23 for "Systems, methods and computer program products for detecting and displaying selectable networked devices based on proximity or signal strength" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,112, issued on June 23, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems, methods and computer program products for detecting and displaying selectable networked devices based on proximity or signal strength" was invented by Jevgeni Taikin (Solna, Sweden), Tomas Gustav Nilsson (Stockholm) and Rafael Lucena Araujo (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architecture is provided for displaying a list of connected devices by generating a first list of devices connected to the same local network and scanning for devices within a defined physical range of a media playback device. A second list of devices within the defined physical r...