US Patent Issued to Sonos on Feb. 10 for "Playing media content in response to detecting items having corresponding media content associated therewith" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,369, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Playing media content in response to detecting items having corresponding media content associated therewith" was invented by Jeffrey Torgerson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Paul Bates (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Matt Welch (Cambridge, Mass.), Sanford Spivey (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Ryan Taylor (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include one or more playback devices, server systems, and/or computing devices, individually or in combination determining that an item is present within an area comprising a playback device, where...