ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,372, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Position pointer" was invented by Yasuo Oda (Saitama, Japan), Masaki Yagi (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshihisa Sugiyama (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position pointer is provided for indicating a position on a sensor of a position detection device. The position pointer includes an elongate pointer body having a distal end and a proximal end; a first electrode disposed near the distal end; and a second electrode different from the first electrode and disposed near the distal end, wherein both the first and second electrodes are capacitively coupleab...