ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,021, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Extension wires and connection wires for position detection device and sensor panel" was invented by Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan) and Ryutaro Nitobe (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes first and second sensor electrodes that are adjacent to each other, connection wires connected to the respective sensor electrodes and including first and second connection wires connected to the first and second sensor electrodes, respectively, a sensor controller connected to the connection wires, and a first extension line; and ...