US Patent Issued to Sonos on Aug. 12 for "Social media queue across multiple streaming media services" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,880, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Social media queue across multiple streaming media services" was invented by Margot Stephenson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that facilitates sharing of multimedia content includes a user interface, network circuitry; and one or more processors. The processors perform operations that include displaying, via the user interface, a list of one or more media playback devices available to be added to a social networking group. A selection of first and second media playback devices to be associated with a particular social networking group is recei...