ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,422, issued on March 24, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Data processing method of processing multitrack audio data and data processing apparatus" was invented by Masatoshi Hasegawa (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuki Suemitsu (Hamamatsu, Japan), Naoki Toriyama (Funabashi, Japan), Yoshihiro Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Tsuge (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method performed by a processor that receives data signals from a plurality of devices that utilize different protocols from each other receives data signals, respectively, from each of the plurality of devices, and generates ...