US Patent Issued to Wacom on May 12 for "Sensor panel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,572, issued on May 12, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sensor panel" was invented by Jun Kadowaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrod...