ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,510, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic pen includes an electronic pen body portion unit, a power supply portion unit that supplies a power supply voltage to the electronic pen body portion unit, and a first housing portion and a second housing portion that form an electronic pen outer casing. The electronic pen body portion unit has a columnar shape, wherein a core body can be installed on one end side in the axial direction, and an electrical first terminal ...