ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,797, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Stylus" was invented by Takeshi Koike (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce an increase in the burden of designing circuits used in a pen pressure sensor, provided is a stylus including a detection circuit that is connectable to a pen pressure sensor that, in operation, acquires pen pressure data of the stylus, the pen pressure sensor being a capacitive sensor in which a capacitance value changes according to applied force or a resistive sensor in which a resistance value changes according to applied force, the detection circuit can selectively...