US Patent Issued to Wacom on June 23 for "Stylus to host synchronization using a magnetic field" (Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,887, issued on June 23, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Stylus to host synchronization using a magnetic field" was invented by Viktor Kremin (Lviv, Ukraine) and Andriy Ryshtun (Lviv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for synchronizing a stylus to a capacitive sense array. The system including a capacitive sense array which includes a plurality of electrodes. A magnetic field is generated using the plurality of electrodes. The magnetic field is used to synchronize the operation of the stylus and the capacitive sense array."

The patent was filed on July 15, 2025, under Application No. 19/269,...