ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,945, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Stylus system with proximity-based display activation" was invented by Junwu Luo (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of power-saving and/or proximity-based auto-waking of a mobile device and/or an input device or stylus includes determining, by a mobile device, that motion of an input device has occurred. The method further includes sending, based on the determining of the motion of the input device, a power-on signal to a touch controller circuit and sending a wireless connection beacon using a short-range wireless communication protoc...