ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,885, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Temporary configuration of a media playback system" was invented by Paul Andrew Bates (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques may involve temporary configuration of a media playback system in a place of accommodation, such as a hotel. In particular, the media playback system in a guest's room is configured with one or more settings of the guest's home media playback system. Example settings include user accounts of a various services, such as streaming audio services and/or voice assistant services. Other example settings incl...