ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,575, issued on July 8, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Indicator device, electronic musical instrument, light emission control method and storage medium" was invented by Tomoya Kajikawa (Tokyo), Shingo Okano (Akiruno, Japan), Osamu Moriyama (Ome, Japan) and Ken Terao (Iruma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indicator device includes a plurality of light emitters and at least one processor. The processor obtains, at intervals of a first period, a first period maximum value representing a maximum volume among a plurality of pieces of volume information based on an input signal. The processor obtains, for each se...