ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,161, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Queue identification" was invented by Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification. In an example implementation, a playback device receives, from a first controller, instructions representing a command to populate a playback queue with one or more first media items; the instructions are associated with a first application identifier corresponding to the first controller. Based on the received instructions, the playback device populates the playback que...