ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,393, issued on March 3, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Nut for musical instrument" was invented by Hiromu Sato (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuki Uchida (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nut for a musical instrument includes: a clamp jaw having an opening through which a stand is passable, the clamp jaw being configured to, in a state of the stand being disposed in the opening, change a size of the opening by changing a position of the clamp jaw between an open position and a closed position; an elastic member configured to, in a state of the clamp jaw being in the closed position, clamp the clamp jaw to ...