ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,146, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Sound processing method, sound processing apparatus and sound processing system" was invented by Takuma Takemoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsumi Ishikawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Akio Ohtani (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound processing method obtains first audio data representing first sound, obtains second audio data representing second sound created in advance, analyzes the first audio data, compares the second audio data with an analysis result of the analyzing, reproduces third audio data from the second audio data by omitting a type of sound...