ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,540, issued on June 10, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Reproduction control method, reproduction control system, and reproduction control apparatus" was invented by Yoshimasa Isozaki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akira Maezawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Shinya Koseki (Fukuroi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented reproduction control method includes reproducing sound from sound data representing a series of sounds including first sound and second sound that follows the first sound. The method includes starting reproducing the first sound, continuing the reproduction of a first sound until an end of the fir...