Category: Patents Rock

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,224,019 Filed: 9 February 2018 In the name of: Audio Analytic Ltd Title: Wearable Audio Device What’s claimed: ”A system comprising at least one microphone, a sound identifier, a wearable audio device, and at least one classifier, wherein: the wearable audio device comprises at least one transducer; and the sound identifier is configured to: identify a target sound detected by the at least one microphone; and in response to identification of the target sound, adjust at least one of: a setting of the wearable audio device; a parameter of the wearable audio device; and an audio […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 10,825,434 Filed: 15 April 2019 In the name of: Casio Computer Co Ltd Title: Electronic Musical Instrument, Electronic Musical Instrument Control Method, And Storage Medium What’s claimed: ”An electronic musical instrument comprising: a performance receiver having a plurality of operation elements to be performed by a user for respectively specifying different pitches of musical notes; a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes and respectively associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played in the order […]

Rockin’ Patent: GB Patent No. 2,424,137 Filed: 11 March 2005 In the name of: Audio Partnership PLC Title: Amplifier What’s claimed: “An output sage for an amplifier, the output stage having first and second output devices connected to an output line, one output device handling a portion of an output signal above a transition voltage region and the other output device handling a portion of the output signal below the transition voltage region, with handling of the output signal being transferred between the first and second output devices in the transition voltage religion, wherein the transition voltage region is spaced […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 4,453,443 Filed: 13 April 1982 In the name of: Paul Reed Smith (inventor) Title: Pitch Stabilized String Suspension System For Musical Instruments What’s claimed: “A string suspension system for a stringed instrument having at least one string with first and second ends and a string suspension system support structure including: first and second attachment means defining two attachment points on said structure for respectively attaching said first and second ends of said string to said structure, first and second string breaking points between and adjacent to respective attachment points, and a bridge, the improvement comprising […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 11,113,707 Filed: 22 January 2021 In the name of: Isolation Network Inc Title: Artificial Intelligence Identification Of High-Value Audiences For Marketing Campaigns What’s claimed: “A method for authorizing execution of targeted marketing campaigns for streaming media intellectual property (IP) assets, the method comprising: streaming, by media asset consumers, of media IP assets distributed to digital service providers (DSPs) via a media asset distributor, for which the consumers have obtained streaming access through subscription or agreement to other terms of use from the DSPs; documenting and compiling the streaming interactions of the consumer into a transaction-level […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,786,298 Filed: 5 October 2016 In the name of: Source Digital Inc Title: Audio Fingerprinting Based On Audio Energy Characteristics What’s claimed: ”A method of audio fingerprinting comprising: obtaining audio samples of a piece of audio, each of the audio samples corresponding to a specific time; generating frequency representations of the audio samples, the frequency representations being divided in frequency bands; identifying energy regions in the frequency bands, each of the energy regions being one of an increasing energy region and a decreasing energy region, an increasing energy region defined as a time region within […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 4,915,005 Filed: 25 August 1988 In the name of: Optek Music Systems Inc Title: Fingering Display For Musical Instrument What’s claimed: ”Analyzing and teaching apparatus to be used in reference to a musical instrument of the type having at least one tone-selecting element manually operable in a range of configurations, comprising: manually operable input means including an electrically powered circuit for entering the conventional musical designation of a predetermined set of tones; said electrically powered circuit including a note-switch means having a first plurality of output lines, said note-switch means being manually operable to cause not […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 1,641,608  Filed: 24 June 1922 In the name of: George O Squier, Joseph O Mauborgne and Cohen Louis (inventors) Title: Electrical Signaling What’s claimed: ”In a system for the reception of radio signals the combination of an antenna, a single wave coil, and an electron tube detector, the grid of said electron tube detector being electrostatically connected to one point on the wave coil, the filament of the electron tube detector being connected to another point on the said wave coil, and the whole wave coil being connected in the plate filament circuit forming part of […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 877,259 Filed: 6 December 1905 In the name of: International Conservatory Of Music Title: Music-Indicator What’s claimed: ”In a music indicator, the combination with a signature finder scale adapted to be placed upon a key board having key-engaging means, of a support slidably associated therewith, and a carrier plate 30 reversibly journaled on the support and having indicating characters on its different sides, and means for rotating the plate.” Why this patent rocks: This patent appears to involve a music indicator which shows music sheet notations and the name of the note and major and minor […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 11,004,429 Filed: 10 March 2020 In the name of: Troy Johnson (inventor) Title: Acoustic Bass Guitar What’s claimed: ”A stringed instrument, comprising: a lower body; a neck extending upwardly from the lower body; a headstock disposed on an upper end of the neck; an upper body that is continuous with the lower body, the upper body comprising a curved extension that extends outwardly from an upper side of the lower body and curves back inwardly toward the upper end of the neck, wherein the upper body terminates at the headstock; wherein the upper body defines an […]