US Patent Issued to Wacom on Feb. 3 for "Timing synchronization of active stylus and touch sensor" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,257, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Timing synchronization of active stylus and touch sensor" was invented by Vemund Bakken (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Eivind Holsen (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a stylus includes one or more electrodes included in a tip, and a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium embodying logic that is configured when executed to receive, by the one or more electrodes and an analog front end, signals transmitted from a touch sensor coupled to a touch-sensor controller, and convert the signals into sequences of digital signals. The lo...