ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,479, issued on May 27, was assigned to inMusic Brands Inc. (Cumberland, R.I.).

"Systems and methods for generating a graphical representation of a strike velocity of an electronic drum pad" was invented by David C. Gill (Lincoln, R.I.) and Daniel Francis Recchia (East Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of displaying drum-strike velocity information is provided. The method includes receiving trigger data. The trigger data includes a strike velocity of a drum-pad zone on a drum pad. The method includes displaying an image of a drum associated with the drum pad on a display, displaying a first portion of the drum i...