ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,689, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Method to be performed by stylus and sensor controller, stylus, and sensor controller" was invented by Masayuki Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan), Haruhiko Hisano (Saitama, Japan), Sadao Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan), Hideyuki Hara (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshifumi Konda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to be performed by a sensor controller that periodically transmits an uplink signal, and by a stylus that, upon receiving the uplink signal, determines a transmission and reception schedule for a downlink signal and the uplink signal on the basis of the re...