Category: Patents Rock

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 3,665,089 Filed: 17 December 1970 In the name of: TONUS Inc Title: Music Synthesizer Keyboard What’s claimed: “In an electronic system, in combination: means for providing a plurality of voltages of different values; means for selecting at least two of said voltages substantially simultaneously; means for providing a reference voltage; means for deriving a difference signal from the values of said reference voltage and one of the selected voltages; means for deriving an output signal from the values of said difference signal and the other of said selected voltages; and means for generating two signals having […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 3,501,586 Filed:  1 September 1966 In the name of: Battelle Development Corporation Title: Analog To Digital To Optical Photographic Recording And Playback System What’s claimed: ”A signal recording and playback system, comprising: input means for generating electrical pulses which form a first digital coded electrical signal; optical recorder means including a single light source supported in a fixed position and connected to said input means so that the pulses of said first digital signal are transmitted in series to said light source for producing a beam of light pulses which form a digital coded light signal […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 11,024,269 Filed: 14 May 2020 In the name of: Ian Reddick (inventor) Title: Modular Electric Guitar System What’s claimed: ”A reconfigurable electronic musical instrument, comprising: an instrument body having a front surface, a back surface, and an outer edge defining a silhouette; a set of strings overlying a portion of the front surface of the body; a cavity accessible through the back surface of the body; at least one pickup module having a front surface, a back surface and a peripheral side wall; wherein the front surface of the pickup module includes an electrical pickup operative […]

Rockin’ Design Patent: US Design Patent No. 823,934 Filed: 8 September 2016 In the name of: Roland Corporation Title: Electronic Wind Instrument What’s claimed: ”The ornamental design for an electronic wind instrument, as shown and described.” Why this design patent rocks: This design patent relates to Roland Corporation’s ‘aerophone’; a digital wind instrument that allows users to play sax, clarinet, flute, violin, synth sounds, and more. The design features a mouthpiece-mounted breath sensor, built-in speakers, and supports traditional sax fingering. See here to learn more about the aerophone. If you’re a patent-savvy music tech business looking for patent help, get in […]

Rockin’ Patent: GB Patent No. 1601447 Filed: 22 March 1978 In the name of: Andreas Pavel Title: Stereophonic Reproduction System For Personal Wear What’s claimed: ”An audio listening apparatus comprising, in combination, (i) a belt for personal wear having attached thereto an audio system including an interconnected stereo audio signal source and stereo amplifier means and a battery power source therefor, and (ii) stereo headphones or earphones electrically connected to the stereo amplifier means.” Why this patent rocks: This patent relates to the ‘stereobelt’ which was a personal stereo player. Some sources describe the stereobelt as being the first portable audio […]

Rockin’ Patent: South Korea Patent No. 10-2168529 Filed: 29 May 2020 In the name of: Supertone Inc Title: Method and apparatus for synthesizing singing voice with artificial neural network What’s claimed (machine translation): ”In the singing-speech synthesis method using a song-speech synthesis device trained with a training data set, obtaining a song voice synthesis request including a synthesis target singer and a synthesis target song from a user; Acquiring song voice data of the synthesis target singer, prosody data, and lyrics text data of the song to be synthesized based on the song voice synthesis request; Based on the song voice […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,602,280 Filed: 22 March 2019 In the name of: Austrian Audio GmbH Title: Condenser Microphone What’s claimed: ”A condenser microphone, comprising: at least one diaphragm; at least one electrode associated with the diaphragm; at least one annular insulator holding the electrode; at least one diaphragm ring holding the diaphragm; and a retaining ring that in cooperation with the annular insulator secures the diaphragm ring, the diaphragm, and the electrode; wherein the retaining ring consists of a ceramic material.” Why this patent rocks: This patent relates to Austrian Audio’s GmbH’s CC8 carotid condenser microphone, for use on […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 4,161,130 Filed: 23 November 1977 In the name of: Thomas G. Lieber (inventor) Title: Body For Bass Guitar What’s claimed: “In a bass guitar, the improvement comprising a single piece bowl-shaped body constructed of graphite in a continuous layer of substantially uniform thickness, the body having a waist portion separating a smaller upper bowl portion from a larger lower bowl portion, the lower bowl portion having a circular bout and substantially greater depth than the upper bowl portion, with the sides of the body being perpendicular to the top along the front side and the […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 2,974,555 Filed: 18 March 1955 In the name of: Wurlitzer Co Title: Electronic Piano What’s claimed: “An electronic musical instrument comprising a common reed support, a plurality of reeds with bases fixed on said common support and with vibratile tongues projecting in the same direction therefrom in side-by-side substantially coplanar parallelism from said support, a plurality of hammers respectively percussively engageable with the tongues of said reeds respectively to set said reed tongues in decadent free vibration, a plurality of manually engageable keys respectively operatively connected to said hammers for selectively moving said hammers into […]

Rockin’ Patent Application: US Patent Application No. 16/596,602 Filed: 8 October 2019 In the name of: Kano Computed Limited Title: Touch Sensitive Audio-Visual Input/Output Device And Method What’s claimed:  ”A touch sensitive audio-visual input/output device comprising: i. an internal core comprising: a. A controller, the controller associated with at least one processor and at least one memory store; b. At least one light emitter associated with the controller; c. At least one audio output component associated with the controller; d. At least one actuator provided relative to the housing and associated with the controller and configured to transmit touch inputs to […]