ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,281, issued on April 15, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Input device" was invented by So Kato (Saitama, Japan), Tatsunosuke Tobita (Saitama, Japan) and Shigeru Yamashita (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an input device including a position detection sensor, an operation including a position indicator which, in operation, indicates a position through interaction with the position detection sensor and accepts a predetermined operation, the operation part being disposed on an input surface that serves as a position detection region of the position detection sensor, an operation detection circ...