US Patent Issued to ALPHATHETA on July 1 for "Electronic musical instrument and musical piece phrase generation program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,410, issued on July 1, was assigned to ALPHATHETA Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Electronic musical instrument and musical piece phrase generation program" was invented by Hideyuki Sakauchi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic musical instrument includes a progression speed changing unit that changes a progression of transport using a predetermined formula such that a total time required for the transport to pass through a specific step section of musical piece data is not changed; a parameter setting unit that sets a parameter for the predetermined formula; and a musical phrase generator that generates a musical p...