US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on April 8 for "Filter effect imparting device, electronic musical instrument, and control method for electronic musical instrument" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,342, issued on April 8, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Filter effect imparting device, electronic musical instrument, and control method for electronic musical instrument" was invented by Masuo Yokota (Fussa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter effect imparting device includes a characteristic-variable filter that has a variable filter characteristic corresponding to a coefficient group composed of a plurality of filter coefficients, and a control circuit that changes the coefficient group from a first coefficient group that is set as a start point to a second coefficient group that is set as an end point...