ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,038, issued on June 10, was assigned to Yamaha Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Sound processing method" was invented by Tatsuya Iriyama (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method, which is executed by a computer, includes detecting a first state in which an object is separated from an operation surface by a prescribed distance, detecting a second state in which the object comes in contact with the operation surface after the first state is detected, executing a first process which includes reading data from a first storage device and loading, into a second storage device, the data that are read, in res...