ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,725, issued on Nov. 3.
"Electronic control arm for musical instruments" was invented by Benjamin Thomas Lewry (Kittery, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic vibrato system for a stringed instrument comprises an actuator and microcontroller which are disposed within a chassis. The control arm moves the actuator from a resting position to non-resting, rotated positions. The system is below a face of a stringed instrument such that the system has a disposed fulcrum within the instrument. The rotated positions impart resistive forces on said actuator and imparting control signals. The microcontroller processes said control s...