ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,863, issued on July 29.
"Apparatus and method for creating a musical road" was invented by Tim Arnold (Auburn, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus 10 and method is disclosed for creating one or more notes as a car 14 drives over the apparatus 10 on a road surface 12. The apparatus 10 can include a first strip 16 of durable material having a length 58 and a width 52; and a first plurality of recesses 20 defined in the first strip 16, each of the first plurality of recesses 20 extending across a portion of the width 52 of the first strip 16; wherein the first plurality of recesses 20 are spaced along the length 58 of the f...