US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on Dec. 16 for "Electronic musical instrument, method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,858, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electronic musical instrument, method, and storage medium" was invented by Makoto Danjyo (Saitama, Japan), Fumiaki Ota (Tokyo) and Atsushi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: causing a syllable position in a phrase that is digitally synthesized for output not to be advanced no matter how the second key...