ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,984, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hard Rock International (USA) Inc. (Davie, Fla.).
"Capacitive musical instrument" was invented by Jared Kozel (Atlanta), Martin Wysor (Atlanta), Ransom Haywood (Atlanta) and Pick Bickmore (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive musical instrument includes an instrument body having a space, the space including at least one plate to separate the space into at least two areas for holding ingredients of a food object, a plurality of inputs that each receive a capacitive signal from a corresponding one of the ingredients of the food object when the ingredients are touched by a user,...