ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,385, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GUSTAV PIRAZZI & COMP. GMBH & Co. KG (Offenbach, Germany).
"Shoulder member and pipe member connecting structure" was invented by Berent Korfker (Moray, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoulder rest (30) for a stringed instrument with a support element (32) extending in a longitudinal direction (L) for resting on the shoulder and/or chest of the player, on which a number of hinged clamping units (34) are arranged, is intended to be adaptable in a particularly simple manner to different geometric requirements. For this purpose, the shaft (50) of the or each clamping unit (34) is mou...