US Patent Issued to Roland on Sept. 8 for "Electronic percussion instrument, percussion instrument set, and method for securing struck surface part" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,563, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Roland Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Electronic percussion instrument, percussion instrument set, and method for securing struck surface part" was invented by Kiyoshi Yoshino (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic percussion instruments 3a to 3g each comprise a struck surface part 30 having a dome-shaped struck surface 30a and formed into a net shape, and a ring-shaped frame 31 connected to the outer edge of the struck surface part 30, and a region on the back surface 30b side of the struck surface part 30 is open. Consequently, unlike a case where the back surface side of a st...