US Patent Issued to SOCIETE BIC, BIC Violex Single Member on Sept. 30 for "Writing instrument" (Greek, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,961, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SOCIETE BIC (Clichy, France) and BIC Violex Single Member S.A. (Anoixi, Greece).

"Writing instrument" was invented by Loic Folgoas (Clichy, France) and Georgios Georgakis (Anoixi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A writing instrument comprising a body having an axis, a writing tip, a reservoir and at least one visual mark being a specific mark for augmented reality applications, the at least one visual mark being configured to be hidden/visible when the writing tip is distant from a writing surface and to be respectively visible/hidden when the writing tip is in contact with a writing su...