ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,198, issued on May 13, was assigned to Drum Workshop Inc. (Oxnard, Calif.).

"Electronic musical instruments and systems" was invented by Paul Piscoi (Dumbravita, Romania), Mark Moralez (Oxnard, Calif.), Rich Sikra (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Connor Lombardi (Oxnard, Calif.) and Marcus Ryle (Oxnard, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to electronic musical instruments, systems, and methods. More particularly, this disclosure relates to electronic percussion instruments such as tom toms, snare drums, bass drums, cymbals, and hi-hats, and assemblies of instruments (e.g., percussion instruments), such as ...