US Patent Issued to Wacom on July 21 for "Electronic pen and cartridge-type electronic pen main body including a conductive first electrode and a second electrode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,939, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen and cartridge-type electronic pen main body including a conductive first electrode and a second electrode" was invented by Shinya Aoki (Saitama, Japan), Yoshiyuki Hashimoto (Saitama, Japan) and Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge-type electronic pen main body includes a conductive center electrode and a peripheral electrode disposed around the center electrode. The peripheral electrode includes a tapered part on a pen tip side and a cylindrical shaped part on an opposite side along an axial direction. When t...