US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on Aug. 4 for "Sound bar and percussion instrument" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,386, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Sound bar and percussion instrument" was invented by Eri Hirai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kazuki Soga (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hisaaki Mukai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Junnosuke Kaseda (Hamamatsu, Japan), Ichiro Osuga (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuichi Tadano (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Ayumi Irisa (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound bar has a striking surface. The sound bar includes: a surface layer having a first surface constituting at least a part of the striking surface and a second surface opposite across a thickness of the surface layer from the first surface; and a ...