G10B 3/12
Keys or keyboards
Official title: Keys or keyboards; Manuals
G10B3/12 (Keys or keyboards) appears on 28 US grants and 30 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10B- Granted patents
- 28
- Published applications
- 30
- Assignees
- 9
- Inventors
- 42
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2018 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 8 |
| 2020 | 9 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Keyboard device16 Jun 2026US 12,658,164 B2Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Keyboard instrument27 May 2025US 12,315,474 B2Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Keyboard device for keyboard instrument5 Nov 2024US 12,136,403 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho
- Operation detection device for key operation of keyboard device, operation detection method of key operation, and keyboard device23 May 2023US 11,657,790 B2Yamaha Corporation
- Sound control device, sound control method and program9 Nov 2021US 11,170,747 B2Yamaha Corporation
- Arrangement, key and method for producing an arrangement and a key6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229202 A1Piano-Schulz e.K.
- Keyboard instrument and method of producing key of keyboard instrument25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299651 A1Yamaha Corporation
- Keyboard device29 Aug 2024US 2024/0290300 A1Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Musical instrument7 Mar 2024US 2024/0078988 A1Yamaha Corporation
- Musical instrument29 Feb 2024US 2024/0071344 A1Yamaha Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hammer device and keyboard device for electronic keyboard instrument10US 9,006,549 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho · 2015
- Hammer device and keyboard device for electronic keyboard instrument6US 9,607,587 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho · 2017
- Keyboard device and keyboard instrument6US 9,899,014 B2Casio Computer Co., Ltd. · 2018
- Tracker action touch for keys in a keyboard musical instrument5US 4,479,415 AAllen Organ Company · 1984
- Organ stop tablet mechanism4US 4,127,756 A1978