US Patent Issued to Wacom on June 23 for "Electronic pen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,882, issued on June 23, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen" was invented by Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan) and Kohei Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic pen including a casing, a core body, a core body holding part disposed in the casing and holding a portion of the core body, electronic parts disposed at a rear stage of the core body holding part in the casing and performing electronic pen functions, an internal constituent part through which the core body penetrates on a pen tip side in the casing, a first ring-shaped elastic component in contact with an e...