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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2008
Applicants:
Bobby Hayes, Louisville, KY (US);
John Rudolph, Antioch, TN (US);
Inventors:
Bobby Hayes, Louisville, KY (US);
John Rudolph, Antioch, TN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone circuit for outputting a melody using the tones to notify the user of the existence of one of the status events.