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  5. /Y10S 84/00 · Music
  6. /Y10S 84/30
Y10S 84/30

Fret control

Y10S84/30 (Fret control) appears on 64 US grants and 1 published applications in this corpus.

Search patents in Y10S

Where it sits

  1. YGeneral tagging of new technological developments
  2. Y10Technical subjects covered by former uspc
  3. Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests
  4. Y10S 84/00Music
  5. Y10S 84/30Fret control
Granted patents
64
Published applications
1
Assignees
16
Inventors
72
Latest grant
3 Sep 2002

Filings by year

Granted patentsPublished applications
Y10S 84/30: granted patents and published applications per publication year
YearGranted patentsPublished applications
197610
197710
197810
197940
198040
198110
198230
198330
198420
198510
198630
198750
198840
198950
199040
199170
199250
199300
199410
199520
199610
199710
199810
199900
200020
200100
200221

1976198619962002

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Recent patents

  • Electronic guitar with its keys arranged in complex array3 Sep 2002US 6,444,891 B1
  • Guitar having tremolo device on each string thereof7 May 2002US 6,384,311 B1
  • Apparatus for automating a stringed instrument26 Dec 2000US 6,166,307 A
  • Calculator for guitar scales27 Jun 2000US 6,080,925 A
  • Electronic guitar music simulation system14 Apr 1998US 5,739,455 A
  • Electronic guitar with its keys arranged in complex array9 May 2002US 2002/0053276 A1

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Constantly changing polyphonic pitch controller135US 4,794,838 A1989
  • Electronic musical instrument114US 4,658,690 ASynthaxe Limited · 1987
  • Electronic keyboard instrument85US 5,557,057 A1996
  • Fingerboard for musical instrument77US 5,398,585 A1995
  • Electric musical string instruments and frets therefor74US 4,748,887 A1988

Top assignees

Documents
  • Casio Computer Co., Ltd.7
  • Roland Corporation3
  • Yamaha Corporation2
  • LPAB Laboratories, a limited partnership1
  • CCBS Inc.1
  • DDiversco, Inc.1
  • GGGilbert Guitars, Inc.1
  • JEJohn Ellis Enterprises1
  • KMKawai Musical Instrument Mfg. Co., Ltd.1
  • MMMesur-Matic Electronics Corporation1

Often classified with

  • G10HElectrophonic musical instruments56
  • G10DStringed musical instruments12
  • G09BEducational or demonstration appliances2
  • G10GRepresentation of music2
  • G10CPianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more1
  • G10FAutomatic musical instruments1

Documents that also carry the other class.

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