US Patent Issued to Wacom on Sept. 22 for "Electronic pen and electronic pen main unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,165, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen and electronic pen main unit" was invented by Shinya Aoki (Saitama, Japan), Yoshiyuki Hashimoto (Saitama, Japan) and Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic pen main unit is configured as a replaceable cartridge fitted to a fitting part positioned in a casing of an electronic pen. The electronic pen main unit includes: a pen tip part including an electrically-conductive core body configured to protrude externally from the casing; a main body tubular part to which the pen tip part is joined on the pen tip sid...