ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,169, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Combination touch and transducer input system and method" was invented by Oliver P. King-Smith (Aptos, Calif.), Bernardus H. Smit (San Jose, Calif.) and Peyman Hadizad (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position indicator is provided for use in an input system including the position indicator and a sensor, wherein the sensor includes an array of electrodes and is configured to detect a position of the position indicator on the array of electrodes. The position indicator includes an indicator controller configured to determine data includin...