ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,122, issued on May 26.
"Bowed string instrument with improved neck" was invented by Gregory Shir (Hawthorne, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bowed string instrument having an improved neck is disclosed and configured for increasing consistency and ease of playability. In at least one embodiment, the instrument provides a body and an elongate neck extending from a top plate of the body, on which is supported an elongate fingerboard. A distal end of the neck provides a pegbox. A bottom surface of a proximal end of the pegbox provides an ergonomic, symmetrically tapered, lateral bulge configured for contacting and substantially c...