US Patent Issued to Wacom on Aug. 25 for "Electronic pen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,428, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen" was invented by Kohei Tanaka (Saitama, Japan) and Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic pen including a casing that has an opening portion at a front end, has a ring-shaped protruding portion protruding toward an axis from an inner wall surface in a vicinity of the opening portion, and is mounted with a circuit part, a core body including a pen tip portion and a shaft portion extending from a rear end surface of the pen tip portion, and a ring-shaped elastic member so provided as to be penetrate...