ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,064, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Group volume control" was invented by Abhishek Kumar (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Mike Lemmon (Seattle) and Stephanie Hughes (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method involves providing an interface that simultaneously displays an indication of a respective volume corresponding to each of at least two zone players and displays a respective selectable icon corresponding to each of the at least two zone players. Each respective selectable icon indicates whether the corresponding zone player has been selected for a group, and at least one of the respecti...