ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,249, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sensor board and display device" was invented by Yoshihiro Kotani (Saitama, Japan), Yutaka Nomura (Saitama, Japan), Kyohei Ono (Saitama, Japan), Seiji Sakurai (Saitama, Japan), Kei Nishino (Saitama, Japan) and Naoki Watanabe (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a sensor board and a display device. The sensor board includes a light-emitting device array (106) in which light-emitting devices is two-dimensionally arranged and loop coils which, in operation, detects a position that has been indicated by an electronic pen, ...