US Patent Issued to Sonos on April 15 for "Systems and methods for associating playback devices with voice assistant services" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,096, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for associating playback devices with voice assistant services" was invented by Sein Woo (Somerville, Mass.) and John G. Tolomei (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include detecting a first wake word via a first network microphone device of a first playback device, detecting a second wake word via a second network microphone device of a second playback device, and forming a bonded zone that includes the first playback device and the second playback device. In re...