ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,845, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System for stylus input latency compensation" was invented by Shuang Gao (Saratoga, Calif.), Jim Oommen Thomas (Kenmore, Wash.), Jingyi Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Songyao Jiang (Newton, Mass.) and Junwu Luo (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stylus provides input via a touchscreen comprising a touch sensor and a display. Latency between placement of a stylus tip and corresponding presentation of visual indicia on the display is reduced or eliminated by determining a predicted path of the stylus tip during a stroke. Visual indicia is presented...