ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,553, issued on March 24, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Information processing method and electronic musical instrument" was invented by Akihiro Takeda (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takashi Akaike (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic musical instrument includes a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit is capable of performing short-range wireless communication with a terminal. In a case where the terminal performs an operation according to an operation pattern including an operation of repeating, in a predetermined pattern, at least one of transmission of a reading reque...