US Patent Issued to Yamaha on July 22 for "Performance agent training method, automatic performance system, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,854, issued on July 22, was assigned to Yamaha Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Performance agent training method, automatic performance system, and program" was invented by Akira Maezawa (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A performance agent training method realized by at least one computer includes observing a first performance of a musical piece by a performer, generating, by a performance agent, performance data of a second performance to be performed in parallel with the first performance, outputting the performance data such that the second performance is performed in parallel with the first performance of the performer, ...