US Patent Issued to Wacom on March 3 for "Method and device for deriving pen position and reporting pen position to host computer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,513, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Method and device for deriving pen position and reporting pen position to host computer" was invented by Sadao Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshio Nomura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a device (e.g., touch controller) includes deriving a pen position, and transmitting a report indicating the derived pen position to a host computer. The report includes a first area storing position data indicating the derived position and a second area storing non-position data different from the position data. The method includes securing...