ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,987, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sensor controller" was invented by Haruhiko Hisano (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor controller that receives a downlink signal transmitted by a stylus, by performing an operation of receiving each of a plurality of symbols constituting the downlink signal within a window time having a time length shorter than a time length of a transmission duration of one of the symbols by the stylus."

The patent was filed on Oct. 24, 2024, under Application No. 18/925,971.

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