Patents by Inventor Dalton L. POTTER

Dalton L. POTTER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110197743
    Abstract: A tuning device includes a weighted housing which reduces transfer of vibrations of all strings of a stringed musical instrument to a body of the stringed musical instrument, and tuning circuitry which simultaneously detects a pitch of each vibrating string. A method of tuning a stringed musical instrument includes attaching an electronic tuning device to a bridge of the stringed musical instrument, activating the electronic tuning device, causing a plurality of strings of the stringed musical instrument to vibrate simultaneously, and individually adjusting a pitch of each of the simultaneously vibrating strings in accordance with a pitch indication for each of the strings produced by the electronic tuning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Dalton L. POTTER, Frank Strazzabosco