ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,679, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Receiving media content based on user media preferences" was invented by Yean-Nian W. Chen (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for receiving media content based on the user media preferences. An example implementation includes a one or more servers receiving data representing a guest list for an upcoming event corresponding to a first user account, the guest list indicating multiple guests corresponding to respective second user accounts of a second cloud service and querying one or more streaming media services for music preferences cor...