US Patent Issued to Wacom on Sept. 1 for "Pointer, position detection apparatus and position detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,498, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Pointer, position detection apparatus and position detection method" was invented by Yasuo Oda (Saitama, Japan), Sadao Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshihisa Sugiyama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pen-shaped position indicator is configured to capacitively couple with a sensor surface of a position detection apparatus. The indicator includes a pen-shaped body; a coil; a driving power production circuit configured to produce a DC voltage from an induced signal in the coil by a wireless interaction with a charging device; a signal production c...