US Patent Issued to Roland on April 14 for "Electronic percussion instrument, control device for electronic percussion instrument, and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,073, issued on April 14, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Electronic percussion instrument, control device for electronic percussion instrument, and control method therefor" was invented by Toshiharu Kimura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control device for an electronic percussion instrument inputs a musical sound signal corresponding to a hit on a struck surface to a first amplifier for amplifying a signal to be connected to a first speaker disposed on the back side of or around the struck surface, and inputs the musical sound signal to a second amplifier for amplifying a signal to be connecte...