Patents by Inventor Richard Excellente

Richard Excellente 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).

  • Asymmetric insert loaded stringed instrument
    Patent number: 4919029
    Abstract: The tonal body disparity between low and high frequency in a stringed instrument and the like may be balanced out by providing asymmetrical mass loading wherein a larger mass is provided to the side of the guitar having strings of high frequency than to the other side. This may be achieved by actual embedding a rigid mass of density greater than that of the body of the instrument into said body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Inventor: Richard Excellente
  • Asymmetric stringed instrument
    Patent number: 4635522
    Abstract: The tonal body disparity between low and high frequency in a stringed instrument and the like may be balanced out by building the guitar having unsymmetrical mass loading wherein a larger mass is provided to the side of the guitar having strings of high frequency then to the other side. This may be achieved by actual peripherally mass loading a conventional guitar, building a guitar with a cross-section substantially resembling a tear-drop, said cross-section being taken in a plane substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the guitar and equally perpendicular to the principal longitudinal axis of the neck of the guitar or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Inventor: Richard Excellente
  • Electric guitar body
    Patent number: D293333
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Inventor: Richard Excellente
  • Electric guitar body
    Patent number: D375114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Inventor: Richard Excellente
  • Electronic signal processor for musical instruments
    Patent number: D405461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Inventor: Richard A. Excellente