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Mark Plagge — 39 Patents

SOSonos: 26 patents #42 of 446Top 10%
Microsoft: 10 patents #4,378 of 40,388Top 15%
Midland School, CA: #57 of 439 inventorsTop 15%
California: #11,915 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Mark Plagge has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sonos. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in December 2025. Mark Plagge ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Mark Plagge in Midland School, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2021.peak 62009: 1 patents20092013: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 4 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 6 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 4 patents20232024: 2 patents2025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12505832 Voice control of a media playback system Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin 2025-12-23
12498899 Audio response playback Jonathan P. Lang 2025-12-16
12277368 Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2025-04-15
12231859 Music service selection Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2025-02-18
12192713 Voice control of a media playback system Jonathan P. Lang, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian W. Chen, Paul Bates +4 more 2025-01-07
11983463 Metadata exchange involving a networked playback system and a networked microphone system Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2024-05-14 $4,913,000
11947870 Audio response playback Jonathan P. Lang 2024-04-02 $8,608,000
11832068 Music service selection Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2023-11-28 $2,547,000
11736860 Voice control of a media playback system Jonathan P. Lang, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian W. Chen, Paul Bates +4 more 2023-08-22 $2,426,000
11726742 Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2023-08-15 $1,482,000
11642589 Virtual-projectile delivery in an expansive environment Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Melissa Arde Lobb, Mikael Froejk Figueroa +2 more 2023-05-09 $729,523,000
11513763 Audio response playback Jonathan P. Lang 2022-11-29
11514898 Voice control of a media playback system Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin 2022-11-29
11212612 Voice control of a media playback system Jonathan P. Lang, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian W. Chen, Paul Bates +4 more 2021-12-28
11184704 Music service selection Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2021-11-23
11137979 Metadata exchange involving a networked playback system and a networked microphone system Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2021-10-05
11042355 Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2021-06-22
10970035 Audio response playback Jonathan P. Lang 2021-04-06
10971139 Voice control of a media playback system Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin 2021-04-06
10847143 Voice control of a media playback system Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin 2020-11-24
10764679 Voice control of a media playback system Jonathan P. Lang, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian W. Chen, Paul Bates +4 more 2020-09-01
10555077 Music service selection Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2020-02-04
10555174 Restricted-use authentication codes Jeffrey David Henshaw, Marc R. Whitten, Michael Palotas 2020-02-04 $54,087,000
10509626 Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts 2019-12-17
10499146 Voice control of a media playback system Jonathan P. Lang, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian W. Chen, Paul Bates +4 more 2019-12-03