US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 23 for "Remote control of media playback on devices distributed across disparate networks" (Swiss, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,676, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Remote control of media playback on devices distributed across disparate networks" 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 network service server system configured to receive authorizations from a remote control application to associate media player devices that are connect...