US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Writing utensil attachment to digitize handwriting" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,423, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Writing utensil attachment to digitize handwriting" was invented by Patricia Anne Lally (Apex, N.C.), Joseph McKeever (Wallkill, N.Y.), David Forrler (Stamford, Conn.), Jia Zhu (Singapore) and Christianne Phillips (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for real-time digital transcription of handwriting and drawings. The method includes attaching a stroke motion recognition (SMR) device to a scribing implement. The method further includes detecting strokes of the scribing implement based on movements of the SMR and transmit...