ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,467, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen and core body for electronic pen" was invented by Kohei Tanaka (Saitama, Japan), Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan), Hideyuki Hara (Saitama, Japan), Noboru Yamaguchi (Saitama, Japan) and Toru Tsunekawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic pent includes a case, a core body, and a signal generation circuit. The core body is attached inside the case such that a front end portion in an axial direction protrudes from an opening portion of the case. The signal generation circuit generates a signal to be transmitted from the core bod...