ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,883, issued on June 23, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Information processing system" was invented by Keiichi Yoshitomi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes: a sensor unit that performs detection of contact of a pen-shaped input device with an operation target surface and presence of the pen-shaped input device within a detection limit distance on the operation target surface; a sound output unit that outputs a sound corresponding to input sound data; and a sound output control unit that inputs silent sound data to the sound output unit in response to th...