US Patent Issued to Sonos on Nov. 18 for "Techniques for enabling interoperability between media playback systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,601, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Techniques for enabling interoperability between media playback systems" was invented by Steven Beckhardt (Boston) and Kyle Seaman (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is configured to (i) receive media content from a media source, (ii) generate a first series of frames including first portions of the media content and first playback timing information, (iii) generate a second series of frames including second portions of the media content and second playback timing information, (iv) transmit the first series of frames to a first playback device ...