ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,096, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Social media queue" was invented by Keith Corbin (Boston), Paul Kafadar (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Abhishek Kumar (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Ron Kuper (Arlington, Mass.), Gregory Paul Ramsperger (Somerville, Mass.) and Andrej Sarkic (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provided herein are directed to social-media playback queues. In one example, a computing system may be configured to (i) receive an identifier of a media playback system, (ii) link the identifier with a social-media account, (iii) based at least on linking the identifier with the so...