ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,078, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Voice control of playback devices" was invented by Paul Andrew Bates (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Playback devices comprising a network interface, an optional speaker(s), and one or more processors are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the playback device is configured to communicate with a computing system that stores configuration data corresponding to each of a plurality of users. The playback device detects one or more users near the playback device and retrieves user configuration data corresponding to each of the one or more dete...