US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 23 for "Base station for use with digital pens" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,940, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Base station for use with digital pens" was invented by Joel Bernard Jacobs (Seattle), Bryan Anthony Sparks (Sammamish, Wash.), Kae-Ling Jacquline Gurr (Seattle) and Chad Michael Roberts (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure enable a docking station to provide various capabilities. In some examples, the docking station includes a sidewall at least partially defining a cavity, a charge module configured to charge a digital pen positioned within the cavity, and an authentication module configured to asso...