US Patent Issued to Wacom on April 21 for "Active pen capable of indicating transmission voltage and position detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,099, issued on April 21, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Active pen capable of indicating transmission voltage and position detection system" was invented by Yoshio Nomura (Saitama, Japan), Masafumi Utsugi (Saitama, Japan), Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan), Ryutaro Nitobe (Saitama, Japan), Susumu Yamada (Saitama, Japan), Haruhiko Hisano (Saitama, Japan), Hideyuki Hara (Saitama, Japan) and Naoki Watanabe (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an active pen used with electronic equipment including a touch sensor that is of a capacitive system and that includes sensor electrodes, the active pen includ...