ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,952, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Synchronization of content between networked devices" was invented by Lee Keyser-Allen (Medford, Mass.), Thomas Higdon (Boston), Luis Vega-Zayas (Arlington, Mass.), Ted Lin (Ayer, Mass.) and Andrej Sarkic (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of media playback system receives a user command to initiate playback of video content and associated audio content and transmits a BLUETOOTH message based on the command to a video playback device. The video playback device receives the BLUETOOTH message, obtains the media content via a local area ...