ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,050, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Multiple-device setup" was invented by Sein Woo (Somerville, Mass.), Liesbeth van den Berg (Medford, Mass.) and Roy Pollock (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example implementation may involve a media playback system detecting two or more playback devices of a given type. The implementation may further involve transmitting, to a particular playback device of the detected playback devices, an instruction that causes the particular playback device to emit a given sound. The implementation may also involve receiving an identification of the pa...