US Patent Issued to Wacom on Aug. 4 for "Electronic eraser" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,474, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic eraser" was invented by Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan), Hock Meng Wan (Saitama, Japan) and Kohei Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here is an electronic eraser includes an electronic pen unit that includes a core body and a pressure detector that, in operation, detects a pressure applied to the core body and that sends an erasing signal including pressure information detected by the pressure detector, a housing having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and a corner member that is integral with the housing,...