US Patent Issued to Sonos on March 25 for "Access control techniques for media playback systems" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,079, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Access control techniques for media playback systems" was invented by Keith Thoresz (Belmont, Mass.) and Nathan Fish (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example access control techniques described herein are intended to enable guest access for a media playback system while maintaining security of the media playback system. An example implementation involves a computing device receiving a request to control a media playback system comprising a playback device. After receiving the request, the computing device obtains access to the media pl...