ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,977, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Do not disturb feature for audio notifications" was invented by Robert A. Lambourne (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Nathan Fish (Ventura, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for actuating a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature of a playback device that is configured to play back alert notifications from a plurality of network-enabled devices include (i) a mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of the playback device; (ii) the mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of a DND time period; and (iii) responsive to receiv...