ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,902, issued on June 23, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic equipment, touch sensor, and position detection apparatus" was invented by Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic equipment includes a touch sensor including a plurality of electrodes arranged in a plane shape and separated from each other in an array direction, a differential amplifier that amplifies a difference between a positive-side signal and a negative-side signal selectively output from the plurality of electrodes and that outputs the difference, a position detection unit that detects a touch position in a sens...