US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on June 23 for "Brass instrument" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,961, issued on June 23, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Brass instrument" was invented by Yoshihiko Matsukuma (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brass instrument according to an embodiment comprises a main tube extending from a mouthpiece receiver to a bell, the main tube including a first divided part, a second divided part, and a third divided part sequentially divided on an airway path from the mouthpiece receiver to the bell, a first tuning slide connecting the first divided part and the second divided part, and a second tuning slide connecting the second divided part and the third divided part. ...