ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,030, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Transferring playback between devices" was invented by Abhishek Kumar (Hayward, Calif.), Andrew Schulert (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert Andrew Lambourne (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon th...