ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,833, issued on April 22, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Stylus" was invented by Yuheng Tong (Dongguan, China) and Zhanwu Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stylus includes a charging circuit, a battery, a power management integrated circuit, and a reset circuit. A charging port of the charging circuit and the battery are electrically connected to the power management integrated circuit through the reset circuit. The reset circuit is configured to: disconnect a path between the charging port and the power management integrated circuit and disconnect a path between the battery an...