G10H 2210/311
Distortion, i.e. desired non-linear audio processing to change the tone colour
Official title: Distortion, i.e. desired non-linear audio processing to change the tone colour, e.g. by adding harmonics or deliberately distorting the amplitude of an audio waveform
G10H2210/311 (Distortion, i.e. desired non-linear audio processing to change the tone colour) appears on 118 US grants and 127 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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