ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,845, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Electronic pen and electronic pen body portion" was invented by Teppei Kanno (Saitama, Japan) and Yuta Sato (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic pen that includes a body portion housing of an electronic pen body portion has housed therein a refill body and a circuit board having a side switch formed by a push button switch mounted thereon, and has a pen-point opening portion through which a pen point of the refill body protrudes. A pressing member is provided in a side opening portion of the body portion housing such that the p...