ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,109, issued on June 17, was assigned to HiDeep Inc. (South Korea).

"Pen and touch input system and controller" was invented by Seyeob Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Bonkee Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young ho Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), HwanHee Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Giduk Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Joohyun Go (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Mun Sub Byun (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyoungwook Woo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kiryoung Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ho Jun Moon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pen and touch input system according to an embodiment of the present invention...