US Patent Issued to Sonos on April 22 for "Systems and methods for coordinated playback of analog and digital media content" (American, British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,500, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for coordinated playback of analog and digital media content" was invented by Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.), Dana Krieger (Emeryville, Calif.), Daniel Jones (London), Gregory McAllister (London), Ryan Purdy (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Adam Kumpf (Delware, Canada), Russell Prince (Madison, Wis.) and Ed Krouse (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Turntable control systems are disclosed. A playback device can include an analog audio source component such as a turntable. The playback device is configured to cause playback of first audio bas...