ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,360, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Audio content playback management" was invented by Paul Andrew Bates (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Abhishek Kumar (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example implementation involves a playback device receiving a request to add continuous automated streaming audio content to a playback queue, the request indicating a playback start time, and the playback queue indicating a plurality of audio content. The implementation further involves the playback device adding the continuous automated streaming audio content to the playback queue. The example im...