ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,516, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Media content based on playback zone awareness" was invented by Kristen Bender (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ron Kuper (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing media content based on playback zone awareness. In one aspect, a computing system receives, via a network interface, zone data from the media playback system, wherein the zone data includes an indication of a particular zone of the media playback system, and wherein the particular zone comprises at least one playback device. The computing system identifi...