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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

His customers wanted a new sound for their electric guitars, so he patented one; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 15, 2018

Nora Shelly, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; His customers wanted a new sound for their electric guitars, so he patented one

"After a few weeks of tweaking the algorithm to get rid of the sharp clicking noise typical of any audio disruption — the sort of noise that sounds like a firecracker has gone off next to your ear drum — the two had a pretty unique invention.

Unique enough that it got approved by the U.S. Patent Office in notably quick fashion: 11 months, start to finish.  

George Mason University’s law school found that, on average, the waiting time for a U.S. patent is a little over three years, according to 2015 research."