ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,119, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Stylus movement translation switching" was invented by Assaf Bar-Ness (Ness Zionna, Israel) and Shoham Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a touch-sensitive display device includes detecting a first real-world movement of a stylus from a first surface position to a second surface position separated from the first surface position by a first real-world movement distance. The first real-world movement is translated into a first virtual movement from a first virtual input position to a second virtual input posi...