US Patent Issued to Sonos on Oct. 7 for "Control device and methods of operating a control device" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,499, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Control device and methods of operating a control device" was invented by Alexia Delhoume (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Sara Lincoln (Alexandria, N.H.) and Brian Roberts (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a control device is disclosed. The method comprises configuring the control device to control a first networked device and while controlling the first networked device and while operating in a first mode, receiving, via the control device, first input data, the first input data indicative of a command to control an illumination device of t...