ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,312, issued on July 29, was assigned to UAB IMPROVIBRACIJA (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Keyboard bag for a keyboard-percussion instrument" was invented by Marius Sinkunas (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a keyboard bag for a percussion keyboard instrument (vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, metallophone, glockenspiel, or the like) for safe operation and transportation of the keyboard, which is the most essential and expensive component of instruments of this class. Unlike known bags for a similar purpose, this bag uses special internal bar tabs which, when placed on the keyboard, are inserted into th...