ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,476, issued on May 27.
"Tambourine" was invented by Guy du Blet (Heathmont, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tambourine including a frame provided with circumferentially disposed slots and respective pairs of jingles therein. The jingles of at least one pair of jingles differ in weight from that of the jingles of at least one other pair of jingles; and/or the slots, and thus the respective jingle pairs therein, are arranged about the circumference of the frame in at least two of the following three configurations: (a) a single row configuration, wherein one or more slots are substantially aligned with a horizontal plane tha...