US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 30 for "Accessing a cloud-based service" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,196, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Accessing a cloud-based service" was invented by Ron Kuper (Arlington, Mass.), Sherwin Liu (Boston), Emilio Arce (Cambridge, Mass.) and Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system is configured to (i) receive, from a user device over a WAN, a request for an authorization code corresponding to a media application on the user device, (ii) based on the request, transmit, to the user device over the WAN, the authorization code, (iii) receive, from a media playback system over the WAN, an authorization request that includes t...