ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,544, issued on June 17, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"Playback device integration" was invented by Mark Obcena (Solna, Sweden), Vladimir Ivankov (Stockholm), Celso Santa Rosa Filho (Stockholm), Adnan Waheed (Stockholm), Erik Broberg (Stockholm) and Laura Elizabeth Knill (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of integrating a playback device for use with a backend server of a media streaming platform includes the following steps: providing an application programming interface (API) command processor at a server to send and receive network communication with a cloud playback adapted system; receiving at the API c...