ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,893, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Streaming music using supported services" was invented by Ron Kuper (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example technique includes a computing system storing media item identifiers of curated media items associated with one or more service providers. A media curating service aggregates the media item identifiers of curated media items. The example technique further involves receiving, from a media playback system, a first message comprising a service provider access identifier. The service provider access identifier is based on a user account o...