Category Archives: Patent news

Second Patent Filed

Second Patent Filed: Combinations of Pickups with Potentially Unique Tones – Patent filed June 7, 2017 developing the math and circuit topologies to show how many different tones are possible from 1 to 8 single-coil pickups (Table 1), 1 to … Continue reading

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Patent Pending Dual Humbucker Switching Beats 3-way Switch

See  Preliminary Results of Patent Pending 20-way Dual Humbucker Switching

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USPTO Official Gazette notice for 9/13/2016

Patent 9,401,134 Acoustic-electric stringed instrument with improved body, electric pickup placement, pickup switching and electronic circuit Will appear in the 9/13/2016 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Official Gazette, listed as being offered for license (only, not sale).

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Open Letter to Pickup Makers

Good Morning, My name is Don Baker.   I created the web site TulsaSoundGuitars.com and the sub-site HumbuckingPairs.com.  Also the web sites aquarien.com, android-originals.com and theandroidsaxe.com.  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 9,401,134 to me, described at: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160027422A1/en … Continue reading

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Humbucking Quad PPA – 10s, 100s, 1000s of tones

Excerpts from Provisional Patent Application Filed for Humbucking Quads So KK number of humbuckers can have: KK = 2, 3, 4, 5                                    humbucking pairs 2*KK = 4, 6, 8, 10                              humbucking pair tones KK = 1, 3, 6, … Continue reading

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Fender(tm) – This means you

I got my U.S. Patent 9,401,134, filed July 23, 2014, issued July 26, 2014, out of the mailbox this morning.  Nice, fancy thing it is, all printed and bound, with an embossed gold seal of the United States Patent and … Continue reading

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The way forward – strategic partnerships

I’ve been coming up with more ideas to patent than I can fund, even in just the U.S.. Without being entirely delusional, I believe these ideas can change, even disrupt, the manufacture of stringed instruments, giving artists who adopt such … Continue reading

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Patent No. 9,401,134 to be issued 7/26/2016

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has given official notice that Patent Application 14/338,373, filed 07/23/2014, published as US 2016/0027422 A1, will be issued on 07/26/2016 as Patent No. 9,401,134.

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Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2.1

It seems worth repeating the message another way, showing how to get the most out of humbucking pairs: For a pickup with 4 matched single-coil pickups, you can have 8 different personalities of 12 timbres each.  The personalities, timbres available … Continue reading

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Guitars With Too Many Choices to Succeed

(c) 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC Let me put this in Bold:  With humbucking pairs, you can set a guitar up to shift from warm to bright without ever knowing which pairs are used. Other  guitars have come … Continue reading

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