US Patent Issued to Sonos on June 10 for "Headphone interaction with media playback system" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,543, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Headphone interaction with media playback system" was invented by Eric Clayton (Concord, Mass.) and Charles Alessi (Litchfield, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques may involve headphone interaction. An implementation may include while headphones are disconnected from a control device, the control device receiving an indication of particular audio content being played back by a first zone of the media playback system. While the particular audio content is being played back by the one or more playback devices of the media playback system, de...