US Patent Issued to Thomastik-Infeld on Jan. 20 for "Musical string" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,038, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Thomastik-Infeld Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).

"Musical string" was invented by Franz Klanner (Vienna) and Bernhard Rieger (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a musical string for bowed string instruments, having a supporting string core, an outer winding layer and at least one first intermediate winding layer, wherein the first intermediate winding layer is arranged between the string core and the outer winding layer, wherein the first intermediate winding layer has at least one first winding element and at least one second winding element, wherein the at least one first winding element ...