US Patent Issued to Wacom on April 7 for "Capacitive electronic pen including detachable axial core body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,458, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Capacitive electronic pen including detachable axial core body" was invented by Yoshiyuki Hashimoto (Saitama, Japan), Shinya Aoki (Saitama, Japan) and Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a t...