US 12,073,815 B2
Switch lock apparatus and method thereof
Joshua John Misko, Decatur, GA (US); and Adam Samuel Mendel, Bend, OR (US)
Assigned to Switchlock, LLC, Hendersonville, TN (US)
Filed by Switchlock, LLC, Hendersonville, TN (US)
Filed on May 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/323,596.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/026,489, filed on May 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0358463 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G10H 1/00 (2006.01); G10H 3/18 (2006.01); G10H 1/18 (2006.01); G10H 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC G10H 3/181 (2013.01) [G10H 1/0008 (2013.01); G10H 2220/461 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A switch lock apparatus for a guitar having a pickup selector switch, the switch lock apparatus comprising:
a body plate having a first body plate end, a second body plate end, and a mounting hole defined therethrough, the mounting hole positioned closer to the first body plate end than to the second body plate end;
a switch opening defined in the body plate and positioned between the mounting hole and the second body plate end, the switch opening including a first switch opening end, a second switch opening end, and a switch opening length defined between the first and second switch opening ends, the switch opening further including first and second switch opening sides defined between the first and second switch opening ends, the switch opening configured to receive the pickup selector switch;
at least one first side receptacle positioned along the first switch opening side; and
at least one second side receptable positioned along the second switch opening side, the at least one second side receptacle offset from the at least one first side receptacle along the switch opening length.