ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,499, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BENQ Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Capacitive stylus" was invented by Chin-Jui Chi (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ta-Wei Liu (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive stylus is applied to a touch panel and includes a main body and a conduction module. The main body has an opening structure, a tip portion and a tail portion. The opening structure is located between the tip portion and the tail portion. The conduction module includes a first end portion, a body portion and a control portion. The first end portion is disposed on the tip portion or the tail portion, and used to co...