US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 23 for "Network-based synchronous media control on multiple playback devices" (Swiss, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,674, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Network-based synchronous media control on multiple playback devices" was invented by Daniel Danciu (Zurich), Yaniv Bernstein (Glebe, Australia), Ramona Bobohalma (Zurich), Oliver Heckmann (Rueschlikon, Switzerland), Jasmine Kent (Bach, Switzerland) and Alin Sinpalean (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of the present disclosure can be implemented by, among other things, a remote control application executed by a mobile device to identify media player devices connected to a network, present the media player devices for selection in a ...