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Draft Chapter R – 3 Coils With 6 Humbucking Circuits
Why electric guitar single-coil pickup circuits don’t have to have hum Continue reading
New page with U.S. Patents for licensing
The following U.S. Patents are available for licensing. Click Here for the index page, and click on the links below to reach each patent. They have all been modified upgraded from the standard uspto.gov download to include drawings and properly … Continue reading
Posted in Humbucking Pairs, Patent news, Pickup circuits & switching, Uncategorized
Tagged 10217450, 10380986, 10810987, 10847131, 10878785, 9401134, guitar, guitar body, guitar circuit, patent, pick holder, pickup
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Eulogy for Adobe PhotoShop 7 ™
Thanks to Microsoft, most likely, PS7 is getting Alzheimer’s. It no longer remembers to stroke the entire path on command, leaving sections undone. Why? Probably because I used Windows Update on Windows 7. I recently upgraded my connection from a … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, History, News, Patent news
Tagged Adobe, CAD, circuits, eulogy, graphic design, painting, photo, PhotoShop 7, PS7
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New U.S. Patent filed & background published
Yesterday, I filed my 3rd Non-Provisional Patent Application, and today published the background theory for it at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323686205_Making_Guitars_with_Multiple_Tonal_Characters The patent involves matched, single-coil pickups for humbucking circuits with reversible magnetic poles. I have a new area for publications of papers … Continue reading
Posted in Humbucking Pairs, Patent news, Press Release
Tagged circuits, guitar, humbucking, patent, pickups, ResearchGate, tonal character, tonal personality
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On the Topologies of Guitar Pickup Circuits
How do you get 620 potentially unique guitar tones from 4 single-coil pickups, or 310 from 3 humbuckers? Read here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323390784_On_the_Topologies_of_Guitar_Pickup_Circuits Abstract: Many of the U.S. patents involving switching circuits for electric guitar pickups have failed in the marketplace because … Continue reading
Posted in Patent news, Pickup circuits & switching, Tutorial
Tagged circuit topologies, patents, pickup circuits
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The Walkin Squawkin Patent Examiner Blues – Part 1
I got this in an e-mail from my U.S. Patent Office Patent Examiner on Jan 24th, 2018: “I cannot conceive of any way to generate an “infinite” (your word) table that would accommodate the breadth of claim 28. You mentioned … Continue reading
Why guitar pickup switching patents fail in the marketplace
I’ve reviewed some more guitar pickups switching patents lately, and most if not all of the ones I’ve seen suffer design flaws that generally cause them to fail in the marketplace, for some of the following reasons: They almost never … Continue reading
Posted in Patent news, Pickup circuits & switching, Tutorial
Tagged circuits, guitar, marketplace failure, patents, pickup, switching
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Coming Patents for 2018-2019
From simple principles of circuit theory, a patent currently in examination (a Non-Provisional Patent Application, or NPPA) develops and enumerates all possible combinations of pickup circuits, from 1 to infinity, which have potentially unique tones. It claims all such circuits … Continue reading
How many humbucking tones from 2HB & a single?
It has taken a long time to develop the math and topologies to answer questions like this. Research is when you search for an answer, get it wrong, or not entirely right, and re-search and re-search and re-search … I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Humbucking Pairs, Patent news, Tutorial
Tagged Ernie Ball, Game Changer, humbuckers, humbucking tones, MusicMan, patent, PRS-513, single-coil pickups, tones, unique tones
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New PPA filed – June 20, 2017
On June 20, 2017, I filed a new Provisional Patent Application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. It covers modifications to two types of electro-magnetic guitar pickups, with horizontal and vertical coils, to provide information on the orientation of … Continue reading
Posted in Patent news, Press Release
Tagged guitar, humbucking pairs, patent application, pickups, PPA, USPTO
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