ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,756, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Mirrored queues" was invented by Steven Beckhardt (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein involve a first playback device, associated with a first household, where the first playback device is configured to mirror a playback queue that is associated with a second playback device, where the second playback device is associated with a second household. For instance, a device associated with the first household, such as a controller, may send a command to the first playback device to mirror the playback queue associated with the second play...