ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,546, issued on April 29, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Live data distribution method, live data distribution system, and live data distribution apparatus" was invented by Futoshi Shirakihara (Hamamatsu, Japan), Tadashi Morikawa (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kentaro Noto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsumi Ishikawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hiraku Okumura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A live data distribution method obtains information on a sound source according to sound generated at the first venue, and information on space reverberation, as distribution data, distributes the distribution data to the second venue, a...