ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,077, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Position detection apparatus configured to detect the positions of multiple position indicators, and position detection method" was invented by Tomo Asakura (Saitama, Japan) and Masamitsu Ito (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection apparatus includes a sensor, and a controller that detects a position of a first position indicator and a position of a second position indicator through the sensor. The controller continues detecting the position of the first position indicator and halts detecting the position of the second position ind...