Category: Patents Rock

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,777,181 Filed: 10 July 2017 In the name of: Dartmouth College Title: Modulated Electromagnetic Musical System And Associated Methods What’s claimed: “A modulated electromagnetic (EM) musical system, comprising: an acoustic carrier signal source for generating an acoustic carrier signal; an EM actuator configured to generate an acoustic modulator signal; a linkage element, driven by the EM actuator, that exhibits nonlinear behavior when physically mixing the acoustic carrier signal and the acoustic modulator signal; and an acoustic output coupled with the linkage element to generate acoustic modulation with the non-linear behavior.” Why this patent rocks: This appears to be […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,654,867 Filed: 17 September 2015 In the name of: Bose Corp Title: Acoustic Device  What’s claimed: ”An acoustic device, comprising: a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around at least a portion of a user’s neck; a retention member extending from the neck loop, the retention member being sized and configured to contact the neck or torso of the user and stabilize the acoustic device a first acoustic driver; a second acoustic driver; a first acoustic waveguide in the neck loop and having a first sound outlet opening; and a second acoustic […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 8,388,512 Filed: 12 March 2009 In the name of: Vera M Brandes Title: Systems And Methods For Music Therapy What’s claimed: “A method for therapeutically using music to treat a disorder comprising: evaluating an individual’s natural ultradian and circadian chronobiological rhythms to determine a first time representing a peak of chrono-biological activity and a second time representing a natural low of chrono-biological activity; selecting an audio program for playing to the individual including an activating composition and a de-activating composition; using an audio device to play the activating composition to the individual before the first […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,799,795 Filed: 26 March 2019 In the name of: Electronic Arts Inc Title: Real-time Audio Generation For Electronic Games Based On Personalized Music Preferences What’s claimed: “A computer-implemented method comprising: by a system of one or more computers, requesting listening history information from one or more music streaming platforms, the listening history information indicating, at least, music playlists to which a user created or is subscribed; determining, based on the listening history information, a style preference associated with the user; accessing a musical cue associated with an electronic game, the musical cue being associated with […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 644,695 Filed: 21 August 1899 In the name of: John M A Stroh Title: Violin Or Other Stringed Instrument What’s claimed: “A stringed musical instrument, comprising in its construction a bridge supporting the strings, a rocking lever connected with the said bridge and supporting the same, a diaphragm held and supported at the edges and adapted to oscillate in the center, a transmitting device situated between the extremity of the rocking lever and the diaphragm and adapted to transmit oscillations from the said lever to the diaphragm, a resonator situated in proximity to the diaphragm […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 5,659,666 Filed: 13 October 1994 In the name of: Stephen L Thaler Title: Device For The Autonomous Generation Of Useful Information What’s claimed: “An artificial neural network based discovery device comprising a first artificial neural network trained to produce an input-output mapping within a predetermined knowledge domain, the knowledge domain being incorporated within the first artificial neural network in a plurality of weights and biases established therein, means for subjecting the first artificial neural network to progressively increasing degrees of perturbation so that the knowledge domain of the first artificial neural network is progressively degraded […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,114,607 Filed: 31 March 2016 In the name of: Rock My World Inc Title: Physiological State-driven Playback Tempo Modification What’s claimed: “A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, using data generated by a sensor, a current value of a metric representative of a physiological state of a user of a digital content playback device, wherein the metric comprises a heart rate of the user; comparing the metric to a set of predefined target ranges; comparing a rate of change of the metric to the set of predefined target ranges; selecting a tempo increase factor based on the […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,786,201 Filed: 8 October 2015 In the name of: Not Impossible LLC Title: Wearable Sound What’s claimed: “A system for transforming audio information to a haptic language, comprising: a signal processor (20) configured to receive an audio input (10) and simultaneously generate a plurality of electrical driving signals (30) according to a predefined mapping from audio signals comprising portions of said audio input to each of said plurality of electrical driving signals; a wearable article (40, S1-S6); and a network of a plurality of vibratory motors (M1-M4) incorporated into the wearable article, wherein the plurality […]

Rockin’ Patent Application: US Patent Application 2022/0229860 A1 Filed: 25 October 2021 In the name of: Creative Intell Inc Title: Method Of Guided Contract Drafting Using An Interactive Chatbot And Virtual Assistant What’s claimed: “A method of providing a virtual assistant in aiding collaborative digital contract drafting comprising: initiating, in response to an input at a client device, a collaborative digital contract drafting process aided by a virtual assistant, wherein a finalized digital contract comprises a plurality of clauses that is digitally executed by at least two user accounts; when the collaborative digital contract drafting process is in a drafting […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 7,902,450 Filed: 13 January 2007 In the name of: (inventors) Lippold Haken, Mark Smart and Edmund Eagan Title: Method And System For Providing Pressure-controlled Transitions What’s claimed: “A method for providing pressure-controlled transitions comprising: receiving a first set of data comprising a first pitch value and a first pressure values corresponding to a first location; receiving a second set of data comprising a second pitch value and a second pressure values corresponding to a second location; calculating an output pitch value using the first pitch and first pressure values in the first set of data […]