ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,052, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Audio notifications" was invented by Nathan Fish (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Daniel Casimiro (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a playback device outputting an audio alert from a network-enabled device include (i) while the playback device is playing back audio content, receiving an alert communication from the network-enabled device, the alert communication including (a) an audio notification identifier that identifies an audio notification and (b) a priority identifier that identifies a priority level of the audio notifi...