US Patent Issued to Wacom on April 8 for "Position detection device, and position detection method based on electromagnetic inductive coupling and capacitive coupling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,566, issued on April 8, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Position detection device, and position detection method based on electromagnetic inductive coupling and capacitive coupling" was invented by Yuji Katsurahira (Saitama, Japan) and Hideyuki Hara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes a position detection sensor and selection circuitry. The position detection sensor has first loop electrodes arranged in a first direction and second loop electrodes arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The selection circuitry is coupled to the first loop e...