US Patent Issued to SUZHOU LI YUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 16 for "Kind of double-bars violin family without sound post" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,753, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SUZHOU LI YUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Kind of double-bars violin family without sound post" 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 double-bar violin family without sound post, including a resonance box, with a front plate, back plate and sidewalls, wherein: two upper bars are parallel on the front plate inner wall; two lower bars are parallel on the back plate inner wall; an upper cross groove sits o...