ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,932, issued on May 26, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sensor system" was invented by Yoshio Nomura (Saitama, Japan) and Yuhi Hatano (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the positio...