US Patent Issued to Sonos on Nov. 11 for "Audio-based and video-based social experiences in a networked media playback system" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,871, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Audio-based and video-based social experiences in a networked media playback system" was invented by James Nesfield (London), Dayna Bateman (Seattle), Klaus Hartung (Boston), Nicholas D'Amato (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Seth Kaplan (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example video communication device is configured to (i) receive, from a computing platform via a wide area network (WAN), video and audio content corresponding to a video call, (ii) render the video content via at least one graphical display and render the audio content via at leas...