US Patent Issued to Wacom on Aug. 4 for "Sensor controller and pen" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,602, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sensor controller and pen" was invented by Haruhiko Hisano (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A change of a resource allocation scheme in a multi-pen supporting electronic apparatus can be made in a shorter period of time than in the prior art. A sensor controller 50 assigns communication resources to one or more pens 2, respectively, and detects a position of each of the one or more pens 2 on the basis of a downlink signal DS received from each of the one or more pens 2 using the assigned communication resources. When changing a resource allocation s...