US Patent Issued to Wacom on Aug. 12 for "Position detection circuit, position detection system, and position detection method in which output of touch position is temporarily inhibited" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,460, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Position detection circuit, position detection system, and position detection method in which output of touch position is temporarily inhibited" was invented by Yoshio Nomura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a position detection circuit for detecting a position of an electronic pen and a position of a passive pointer on a touch surface disposed on a capacitive touch sensor constituted by a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged two-dimensionally, the electronic pen being configured to be capable of transmitting a pen signal, the passi...