ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,624, issued on April 22, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Touch controller and pen input system" was invented by Yoshio Nomura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch controller includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the touch controller to: operate in an uplink power saving mode in which an uplink signal is transmitted with reduced power in response to reception of a suspend order from a host computer, and operate in a normal mode in which the uplink signal is transmitted with normal power in response to det...