US Patent Issued to Roland on April 29 for "Sound source device for electronic musical instrument, musical sound generating method and electronic musical instrument system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,543, issued on April 29, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Sound source device for electronic musical instrument, musical sound generating method and electronic musical instrument system" was invented by Ryo Takasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Kou Imai (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Morita (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This electronic musical instrument main body device comprises an information acquisition unit and a port assignment unit. The information acquisition unit acquires, from a playing operation device connected to one connection terminal, information related to the playing operation device. The port as...