ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,158, issued on May 20, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Audio mixer, and method of controlling audio mixer" was invented by Keiichiro Soma (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takeshi Nonaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio mixer includes an operation panel that includes a plurality of physical controllers that control a value of a parameter. The audio mixer has a signal processor that processes an audio signal to be outputted from a plurality of input channels to a plurality of mixing buses according to the value of the parameter, and a processor that controls an operation of the signal processor. The plu...