ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,848, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Continuous playback queue" was invented by Keith Corbin (Boston), Steven Beckhardt (Lexington, Mass.) and Arthur L. Coburn IV (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described herein that involve a media playback system playing back a playback queue according to a continuous-playback mode. In one aspect, a playback device is provided that includes a network interface, one or more media processing components, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium with program instructions stored thereon. The program instructions are executable by at least one ...