ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,609, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Electronic pen" was invented by Kohei Tanaka (Saitama, Japan), Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan), Yuta Sato (Saitama, Japan) and Kyohei Ono (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic pen including a core body, a pressure detector which, in operation, detects a pressure applied to the core body, and a transmitting component which is located between the core body and the pressure detector and which, in operation, transmits the pressure applied to the core body to the pressure detector, in which the transmitting component includes two se...