ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,108, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Musical performance correction method and musical performance correction device" was invented by Akira Maezawa (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A musical performance correction method executable by a computer, the musical performance correction method includes: estimating a playing position in a musical composition by analyzing musical performance data indicating a played pitch played by a user; and correcting the played pitch indicated by the musical performance data to a reference pitch, from among a plurality of reference pitches correspondin...