US Patent Issued to Wacom on Feb. 10 for "Executing gestures with active stylus" (South Korean, Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,256, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Kazo, Japan).

"Executing gestures with active stylus" was invented by Esat Yilmaz (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Trond Jarle Pedersen (Trondheim, Norway), John Logan (Danville, Calif.), Vemund Kval Bakken (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kishore Sundara-Rajan (San Jose, Calif.), Joo Yong Um (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Igor Polishchuk (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a stylus comprising an accelerometer operable to detect an acceleration in response to a touch to the body and initiate a pre-determined function, a method of using same, and one or more non-transitory ...