US Patent Issued to Wacom on July 8 for "Coordinate output device, pen-shaped device, and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,652, issued on July 8, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Coordinate output device, pen-shaped device, and electronic equipment" was invented by Gen Igarashi (Saitama, Japan), Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan), Masayuki Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan), Hideki Fujimaki (Saitama, Japan) and Tsukasa Nomi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a coordinate output device that outputs absolute coordinates indicating a position in a predetermined region or relative coordinates, according to a position indicated by a position indicator. The coordinate output device continues to output the relative coordinates ...