ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,701, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Electronic device, data usage method, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroshi Okamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihiro Nagata (Shizuoka, Japan), Tokio Takahashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yusuke Miyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ichiro Yazawa (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a data usage method are provided. An electronic musical instrument confirms whether respective sound data stored in a timbre memory or a wave memory can be used or cannot be used based on management information acquired from a server. A sound data determined to be ...