US Patent Issued to Wacom on June 17 for "Input device and input system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,282, issued on June 17, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Input device and input system" was invented by So Kato (Saitama, Japan) and Katsuhito Obi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device is provided, which includes an operation shaft and a case configured to house the operation shaft such that a tilting operation to tilt an axial direction of the operation shaft to a desired direction can be performed. A coil constituting a resonant circuit for performing signal interaction through electromagnetic induction coupling with a position detection sensor is housed in the operation shaft, such that a ...