Patents Assigned to Korg USA Inc.
  • Patent number: 7705223
    Abstract: An ergonomic guitar including a contoured guitar body, a neck attached to the body, and a headstock on the distal end of the neck. A plurality of strings extending from the headstock to the body, a portion of the strings lying on a playing plane over the body. The contoured guitar body includes a front face located on a front or playing side of the body with a front edge extending around the periphery of the front face, and a rear face located on the back of the body and having a rear edge extending around the periphery of the rear face. At least a portion of the rear edge having a concave curvature relative to the playing plane such that the curved portion of the rear edge curves away from the playing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Korg USA Inc.
    Inventors: William Eric Kirkland, Richard M. Lasner, Robert Douglas McDonald
  • Patent number: D593147
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Korg USA Inc.
    Inventors: William Eric Kirkland, Richard M. Lasner, Robert Douglas McDonald
  • Patent number: D594053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Korg USA Inc.
    Inventors: William Eric Kirkland, Richard M. Lasner, Robert Douglas McDonald