ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,480, issued on May 27, was assigned to AUDIO INVENTIONS Ltd. (Farnborough, Great Britain).
"System for identification of a note played by a musical instrument" was invented by Brian Smith (Farnborough, Great Britain) and Paul Davey (Farnborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is disclosed for identification of a musical note played by a musical wind instrument with a resonant chamber having a plurality of configurations selectable by a player of the musical wind instrument and an electrically conductive surface in the resonant chamber. The system and method include a stimulation signal generator for ...