US Patent Issued to Wacom on Dec. 16 for "Method, sensor controller, and electronic apparatus" (Taiwanese, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,820, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Method, sensor controller, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan), Chengliang Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung-Nien Lang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a sensor controller detects coordinates of a pen including one or more electrodes that transmit a signal. The method includes a first scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode in contact with a panel surface at each of three or more first reference positions at which signal levels can be dete...