US Patent Issued to Sonos on Aug. 5 for "Playback of synthetic media content via multiple devices" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,125, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Playback of synthetic media content via multiple devices" was invented by Nicholas D'Amato (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Dayn Wilberding (Portland, Ore.), Aurelio Ramos (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Daniel Jones (London), Steven Beckhardt (Boston) and Gregory McAllister (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generative media content (e.g., generative audio) can be played back across multiple playback devices concurrently. A coordinator device can receive a multi-channel stream of media content, with at least some channels comprising generative media content. The coordinator dev...