US Patent Issued to SONOS on April 22 for "Routines for playback devices" (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,498, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONOS INC. (Goleta, Utah).

"Routines for playback devices" was invented by Shilpa Sarode (Cambridge, Mass.), Joshua Salit (Danbury, Conn.), Nikit Waghela (New York), Graham Bullis (Seattle), Brandon Wright (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Luis Vega (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device receives one or more first user inputs associating a particular playback mode with one or more playback devices and one or more user-defined acoustic parameters for particular media content that is associated with the particular playback mode. The control device associates a particular trig...