US Patent Issued to Wacom on Aug. 11 for "Electronic pen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,912, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen" was invented by Kenichi Ninomiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Arai (Saitama, Japan), Kohei Tanaka (Tokyo) and Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic pen includes a casing, an opening portion formed on one side of the casing, a core body that projects outside of the casing through the opening portion, a pen module part, and a core body insertion member disposed in the casing and having a hollow space that houses the core body. The hollow space includes a hollow portion between an inner circumferential surface ...