ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,030, issued on March 25, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Stylus and touch device for encoding and transmitting signal having multiple frequencies" was invented by Tsung-Yu Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yun-Hsiang Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yuan-Fu Hsueh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stylus and a touch device are provided. The stylus includes a tip portion and a transmission electrode. The transmission electrode is disposed on the tip portion. The transmission electrode transmits a downlink signal to the touch device. The touch device includes a touch panel and a touch processing...