US Patent Issued to SUZHOU LI YUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS on April 22 for "Grand piano soundboard with a bar and sound tunnels" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,260, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUZHOU LI YUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Grand piano soundboard with a bar and sound tunnels" was invented by Haiou Jin (Suzhou, China), Nianbo Wu (Suzhou, China), Xinxi He (Suzhou, China), Xinzhi Zhu (Suzhou, China), Biying Li (Suzhou, China) and Ping Yang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grand piano soundboard with a bar and sound tunnels has an outer wall with first and second grooves. The first groove is arranged diagonally in the width direction. The second groove is arranged diagonally in the length direction. The grooves cross and connect on the outer w...