ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,992, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Stylus speed" was invented by Assaf Bar-Ness (Redmond, Wash.) and Shoham Dekel (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for use with a touch surface digitizer, the device comprising: a sensor configured to receive uplink signals emitted by a grid of antennas in the digitizer, and a controller configured to detect the uplink signals via the sensor; wherein the controller is further configured to determine a speed of the device based on a detected sequence of the uplink signals as received at the sensor from one or more juncti...