ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,743, issued on July 29, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Multi-participant media control and playback" was invented by Arindaam Roy (San Francisco), Demetrius King (San Francisco), Olayiwola Bakare (San Francisco) and William Wang (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides greater security and control to the field of collaborative playlists by utilizing access policies and access tokens to control which user accounts can access a collaborative playlist, what permissions are provided to user accounts that can access a collaborative playlist, and to schedule future permission changes."...