ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,687, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Input device control system and input device controlling method" was invented by Keiichi Yoshitomi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device control system includes: a vibration control unit which is configured to vibrate a pen-shaped input device by using writing sound data so as to generate writing sounds in accordance with detection of a state that the pen-shaped input device is in contact with an operational object surface; and a correction unit which is configured to execute processing w...