ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,301, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Home UI system for managing digital ink" was invented by Nobutaka Ide (Saitama, Japan), Mu-Tzu Chen (Saitama, Japan), Sadao Yamamoto (Saitama, Japan), Philipp Daniel Schongen (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Peter Bacher (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home user interface (UI) system for managing digital ink is provided. The home UI system includes a plurality of state sensors capable of detecting a state in a house or a change in the state, and a plurality of home-use devices that are provided in the house or that form part of the house and that eac...