US Patent Issued to Sonos on July 22 for "Media content based on operational data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,877, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Media content based on operational data" was invented by Ryan Taylor (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Dmitri Siegel (Ojai, Calif.) and Helen McDermott (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computing system that maintains a playlist of media items for playback by one or more playback devices receives, from a first playback device, a request to play back the playlist and first operational data and also receives, from a second playback device, a request to play back the playlist and second operational data. The computing system provides the media items in the...