ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,747, issued on May 6, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Musical instrument" was invented by Yasuhito Ishihara (Hamamatsu, Japan), Jun Ishii (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hidehisa Yasuno (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A musical instrument includes: an acoustic portion that makes sound in response to vibration; an exciter that includes an exciter body and a vibrating portion vibrating with respect to the exciter body, and excites the acoustic portion; and a support portion that is attached to the acoustic portion and supports the exciter body such that the vibration is transmitted from the vibrating portion t...