US Patent Issued to Wacom on Oct. 27 for "Position detection device, and position detection method based on electromagnetic inductive coupling and capacitive coupling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,367, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Position detection device, and position detection method based on electromagnetic inductive coupling and capacitive coupling" was invented by Yuji Katsurahira (Saitama, Japan) and Hideyuki Hara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and detection circuitry. The detection circuitry includes a first common terminal, to which first terminals of the plurality of first electrodes are couplable, and a second common terminal, to which second terminals of the plu...