ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,626, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Yamaha Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Signal processing device, stringed instrument, signal processing method, and program" was invented by Hidenari Kim (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Michael Wilson (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing device acquires information relating to a stringed instrument, and sets a parameter to an equalizer based on the acquired information relating to the stringed instrument."

The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/643,950.

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