ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,734, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for voice-assisted media content selection" was invented by Sherwin Liu (Boston) and Paul Bates (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include (i) capturing a voice input comprising a request for media content, (ii) receiving information derived at least from the request for media content, (iii) requesting and receiving information from at least one remote computing device associated with a first media content service and at least one remote computing device associ...