US Patent Issued to Wacom on Aug. 18 for "Position detection device and control method for position detection sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,836, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Position detection device and control method for position detection sensor" was invented by Takeshi Kobori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes a main body with a housing that encloses an electronic pen while the electronic pen is accommodated in an accommodation portion included in the housing, and a planar coil having a rectangular cross-sectional area and disposed adjacent to the accommodation portion at a position at which a direction perpendicular to the rectangular cross-sectional area of the planar coil crosses an ax...